Dig down into the Willamette Valley and you find layers of burnt vegetation.
The Native Americans that were still alive when Euros showed up gave accounts of how they set fire to the Valley periodically.
I wasn’t yelling at you specifically, just idiots that think artificial human created environments are some sort of climate caused garden of eden.
Apparently you didn't read my post for what it said.
Aboriginal burning was seasonal for millennia. OK? Got it? Yes, I knew that. I knew it from Gerald W. Williams' work on the topic in... what do you know, Willamette Valley (in my copy of Kay's Wilderness & Political Ecology it is on p185)! I knew it from Kat Anderson's work on ethnobotany. I knew it when I wrote my first book thirteen years ago. I knew it when I was first shown successive fire scars in grade-school. I knew it when I studied aboriginal California Indians in the SECOND GRADE. I've even knew it when I documented how burning can bring up edible forbs in late summer because the hydrophillic attributes of charcoal are attractive to atmospheric moisture. That photograph was sent to scientists around the world earlier this month and not by me.
Got it? What I don't appreciate is you shrieking at the top of your lungs at me as if I am some sort of idiot without any clue about whom you are addressing.