07-21-2021, 10:49 AM
(07-20-2021, 10:56 PM)plam Wrote:(07-19-2021, 09:04 PM)jeffster Wrote: Well, it is wildfires. These things happen with or without mans help. I was reading that many out west would rather forgo some rain just to avoid more lightening strike (which create the fires). (I am aware that some of them might be made by carelessness).
Fun fact! First nations used fire to control the landscape with controlled burns. Then white people and Smokey the Bear came along to suppress all fires. Unfortunately when you do that, then the amount of fuel just accumulates, and, combined with climate change, you get super-fires like the ones we've been seeing recently.
I wonder if the same applies to residential flooding? I have an idea that First Nations knew not to build their houses on flood plains; or at least to only live there seasonally. Then the settlers came and built right next to the river and only (mostly) stopped after losing many neighbourhoods to flooding.