Smoke on the water...

[LJ3]

My original point was that man is very small in the face of nature. We sometimes forget that to our detriment. Hubris.

I'm with Johnboy on this one.

[BarryBobPosthole]

He wasn’t talking about your small hands.

BKb

[Captain]

It all started when “we” took fire out of nature and controlled it.
Now instead of small controlled burns the forest floors are piled high with a century worth of fuel. So when a fire does break out in ideal conditions it runs wild.
If controlled burns are done every so often fuel is way down and wildfires are contained more easily.
Native American Indians use to use fire as a fire deturant.

[BarryBobPosthole]

So according to your theory, before we came along they must have had horrible fires. But they didn’t. We didn’t start having big fires like these until they started timbering. There was a huge fire in the Superior Nat’l Forest in the 1800s that really triggered the whole National Forest System. One of its primary purposes was to reduce those fires. You can’t take all the mature shit out of a forest and expect it not to become a giant fireplace.
Now I actually ain’t against timbering. That isn’t the point. The point is to stop blaming it onthe LACK of timbering. The folks that are spreading that bullshit are the ones who stand to make the most money off it.


BKB