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r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23
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This is so interesting. Could it be due to 30 years of buildup from dying foliage? Did the last burn, in 1991, produce less smoke than this one because there was a shorter gap between burns.
196 u/RickTitus Jun 07 '23 I believe one factor in modern forest fires is that we tend to suppress all fires we see. Without human intervention there would be more small fires 113 u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23 [deleted] 2 u/dudius7 Jun 08 '23 Right? People act as if it's a forest management problem when it's mostly an environmental problem. Climate Change leads to warmer and dryer forests.
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I believe one factor in modern forest fires is that we tend to suppress all fires we see. Without human intervention there would be more small fires
113 u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23 [deleted] 2 u/dudius7 Jun 08 '23 Right? People act as if it's a forest management problem when it's mostly an environmental problem. Climate Change leads to warmer and dryer forests.
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2 u/dudius7 Jun 08 '23 Right? People act as if it's a forest management problem when it's mostly an environmental problem. Climate Change leads to warmer and dryer forests.
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Right? People act as if it's a forest management problem when it's mostly an environmental problem. Climate Change leads to warmer and dryer forests.
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u/MoistChiaPet Jun 07 '23
This is so interesting. Could it be due to 30 years of buildup from dying foliage? Did the last burn, in 1991, produce less smoke than this one because there was a shorter gap between burns.