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> severe droughts, meaning more dry fuel, as well as more intense heat waves”. The conditions set the stage for more, larger fires throughout the year. The trend will threaten people, property, and natural spaces

It’s funny that we often phrase forest fires as some ecological disaster, when in reality they are a normal and healthy part of a forest. I fact, some seeds won’t even germinate until they’ve been roasted by a forest fire [1].

It’s only now that we live all around and inside them that it’s become our problem.

1. https://www.britannica.com/list/5-amazing-adaptations-of-pyr...

parent dev_dull 8 years ago

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