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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Even this can have negative impacts. More frequent, smaller forest fires allows for the "fuel" to be burned off in small quantities. If you go too long without the fuel being used, it builds up, until you get a very large forest fire. Which happened a few weeks ago (sparked by the other right conditions, of course)

[–] Timecircleline 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You just described the cultural burning practices that were in place for thousands of years though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right, which I would say is not forest fire prevention, since they are starting forest fires. It's more so forest fire mitigation. Perhaps that's getting into semantics, but I thought it was a necessary clarification.

[–] Timecircleline 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you, no that makes total sense

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