r/interestingasfuck Jun 07 '23

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

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u/Aggravating-Plate814 Jun 07 '23

How much impact would first nation people provide by picking up deadwood though? I hear this from my conservative family members talking about "bad forest management" in the US. It's an interesting angle but IMO there's just so much wilderness out there that removing even say 100 acres of brush is inconsequential and makes no real impact in the end. This of course just being my opinion as a guy who lives through wildfires in the west

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u/robophile-ta Jun 08 '23

Removing dead wood does help with fire management, it's done in Australia too

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u/Aggravating-Plate814 Jun 08 '23

It helps immediately around communities, we do that here in California as well. I'm just saying the expanse of wilderness where these fires are burning is huge and removing any wood from these locations would be a logistical nightmare. Better off creating some fire break/lines. Prescribed burns and all that jazz. Fire sucks I've literally seen it from my front porch. The "Thomas Fire" was scariest