| Chrkeller said: Cyber Ninja has a point. I mean the best way to prevent forest fires is dropping a bunch of gasoline and matches in the woods. Duh guys! |
Lol this is actually a slightly bad example for Australia as controlled burns happen to prevent major disasters. Our Gum trees and probably other native plants actually require fire for the seeds to germinate and grow, guessing because of how they adopted to our burning environment lol. I guess its natures way of regrowing in a burnt down environment.
The aboriginals used to do controlled burns to ensure the forest would continue to thrive and not burn down to a crisp. We do a lot of controlled burning here too to burn the fuel on the ground but when money runs out and the fuel piles up after a few seasons of summer, watch out that forest is burning right down trees and all destroy the habitat for native animals. Sadly we are usually so dry and hot that we will continue to burn pretty much every year somewhere that hasn't had any controlled burning done to it.
