[TonyM]

I know this is off topic but Shepard Smith just said goodbye from Fox. Great Day!

[fini]

Anyone that is over 40 years old knows this stuff. I remember in the 1980s at Camp Pendleton we were briefed about the importance in controlled burns and how it had been occurring since the beginning of time (before man- uncontrolled fires/ Native Indians- controlled burns / Land management- controlled burns). This is for the whole US. There are seeds from some plants (on the east coast and west cost) that don't germinate unless they are scorched.

If you read accounts from the colonial period you can find references to the Indians teaching the pale faces the need for controlled burns.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Using computer models and pollen and charcoal records to track changes in the forest over time, she has found that forest composition dating back 1,500 years likely was the result of deliberate burning by Native Americans, rather than natural phenomena such as lightning strikes."

That seems like a bit of imaginative thinking and maybe a wishful conclusion. Rather flimsy evidence.

Those forests featured wide open spaces, resembling parks. Today, the same landscape is thick, dense and prone to catastrophic fires that have caused widespread devastation in California in recent years.

That is certainly true here in the Inland Northwest. Forests are choked with weak, small diameter, and short trees. Aggressive thinning is underway in many areas to space the trees out at 20 to 30 feet allowing them to grow a lot taller, thicker, and a lot stronger. That way the fires don't reach into the canopy and consume the entire forest. This has been known for a long time. Good old Smoky Bear really screwed up his native habitat.

[Scrambler Bob]

Wildfires burned 875,000 acres in the state last year.
= = =

Better put a multiplier on that.

LA and idiot trash track drivers and arsonists have upped that number just since last night.

[Sacajaweau]

Time to reinvent the CCC camps.

Put those college kids to work during the summer....and other kids who never attended college.

[I want the USA back]

“They have been here a heck of a lot longer than we have”

No they haven’t. The individuals who were here before evil Whitey arrived are gone. There are other individuals here now who descended from the original ones. They are part of “us” now. Stop separating people into groups of “us” and “them”.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Interesting reading here.

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/272-1709/letter-from/5826-letter-from-california-fires

[Larry Lucido]

“We’re going to do controlled burns.”

“How dare you!”

“The Indians did it.”

“Oh. Alrighty then.”

[Mastador1]

Oh yes I’m sure they the native Americans conducted controlled burns overseen by the Fire Chief! Okay now to address the issue, yes we need to return to clearing the underbrush and have vest trees and yes conduct burns, though I think we were lucky if half of them were actually controlled.

[Mastador1]

Oh yes I’m sure they the native Americans conducted controlled burns overseen by the Fire Chief! Okay now to address the issue, yes we need to return to clearing the underbrush and have vest trees and yes conduct burns, though I think we were lucky if half of them were actually controlled.