[Terrapreta] wildfire

[lou gold]

Yep, it seems that indigenous peoples around the world used slow cool
burning as a landscape management tool, but not the kind of inferno shown in
the photo. It's not that large hot burns never happened but the incidence of
them was far apart. Many long-standing fire ecologies are now being
threatened as hot burning become more frequent.




On Nov 10, 2007 3:05 AM, Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes probably true
> The Australian Aborigines always used fire to manage the land here for
> over 40,000 years.
>  Many believe they used 'cold' burning and protected productive areas of
> rainforest fruit.
> Now bushfire control people do try to burn the bush in winter to reduce
> the fire hazard.
> ma
>
> On 10/11/2007, David Yarrow <dyarrow at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >  dry wood versus green & wet.  burning trees and brush in a drought will
> > yield more ash.  a rainforest of lush green growth will burn lower and
> > slower and yield more charcoal.  also depends on speed of the fire's
> > movement.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >  *From:* Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com>
> > *To:* David Yarrow <dyarrow at nycap.rr.com>
> > *Sent:* Friday, November 09, 2007 2:26 AM
> > *Subject:* Re: [Terrapreta] wildfire
> >
> > Unfortuntely David Wildfires mainly makes more ash than charcoal.
> > Certainly that has been the recent Australian experience.
> > MA
> >
> >
>
>
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