Mother Nature is un happy!! The story a forest ranger told me many years ago:
Before we came to this country (long time ago). Mother would send down a lightning strike and start a fire. The deer, bear, birds, human Indians and anything that could leave the area. Indians would just roll up their home (TP) tuck it under their arm and run to a near by stream or find away to go around and be on the back side.
The fire burnt all the fallen leaves, branches, and other stuff in the way.
Now we come here and build houses and dwellings that took hard work to build. We built fire pumps from horse drawn to modern super duty fire trucks to extinguish the fires. All of last fall's leaves, branches, and trash that Mother didn't catch on fire builds up over years time. So now we have "controlled burns" and still have unburnt stuff down in crevice's and protected from rain and the sun dries out the stuff.
IF? We could let the fires go we would still have smaller fires But not square miles of built up kindlin feet deep in the forest that burns for days. We just have to learn how to steer the fires once a year I think. This is NOT a climate thing folks this is Mother's way. As I was told by the State forest range backin the 1950's.
