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High intensity wildland fire ???
February 5th, 2010 Filed Under Blog
See the article under lessons on this site….New Report Debunks Myth of “Catastrophic Wildfire”. What is in a name? What is in a word? High intensity burn, catastrophis wildfire, stand replacing burn? A rose is still a rose under any other name. However, what we call things does impact public opinion. The author of the article makes a good point.
Could we think of high intensity burn in relation to a stand of trees as being a “serotinous” ecosystem? The stand or ecosystems requires high intensity fire to regenerate itself. Thus from the standpoint of the ecosystem a high intensity burn is a healty, cleansing, rejuvinating event. For the individual tree a high intensity burn is dramatic.
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