Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

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Big Bad Wolf 18 7, 1:05am

@LHospital
"Pre-colombian Yellowstone was a managed forest"? I'd love to see a citation for that one! What kind of management do you think was being performed? As to wildfires, they're a pretty natural process and tend to wipe out the brush and small stuff while leaving the larger trees. Some (Sequoia, Redwood) actually need fire to reproduce. But when they've been impeded, there's more brush lying around so the resulting fires become huge monsters. This is the result of human mismanagement as we try to remove something that's "bad" without understanding it's place in the natural cycle.

America's natural parks, where the tourists are, aren't wild. They're the the easy, nature-like areas that people can go to. The wild lands are where the roads end, and they're much, much larger than the tourist areas. Any fences you find are usually for the ranchers. They'd rather blame and shoot the wolf than admit most attacks are by coyotes.