[Terrapreta] wildfire

[David Yarrow]

indigenous people never clearcut entire mountainsides.  

the whites first act to destroy the land balance was to cut down all the ancient forests. what grew back was no forest, but a tortured tangle of fast-growing, ground hugging species. 

a forest is much more than trees, and removing trees ruins the soil and habitat for all else.  even if the trees grow back in another 200+ years, the deeper diversity and complexity of the entire living forest as a community will need at least as long beyond to reassert its implicit order and balance.  

current so-called "forests" with their thick undergrowth are early stages of regeneration and succession after the chaos of clearcut logging.  they are choking with the dead debris of shrubs and trees of the early stages of succession and regeneration.

big old trees will normally survive a cool ground fire of wet, green growth.  a high temperature crown fire fed by dense dry debris at ground level kills everything except the hardest seeds.

David Yarrow
"If yer not forest, yer against us."
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