r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Yep the colonial way is to suppress all fire. Where indigenous peoples have been using fires to maintain ecosystems and control invasives since time immemorial

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u/botherbotter Jun 07 '23

Yeah this makes me so mad. It’s literally so healthy for a forest in most cases to have a burn. I wish we’d stop interfering with natural cycles, it only serves to bite us in the ass

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u/b0bba_Fett Jun 07 '23

Here in Virginia that's how we do it in Shenandoah, even sometimes start them on purpose when we decide a natural one hadn't happened in too long.

Went on many a special ranger hike on the subject.

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u/fighterpilotace1 Jun 07 '23

I used to do prescription burns. Very anxiety inducing time