Comment by ultrarunner 10 months ago
Fire is part of nature, but many of these fires are caused by target shooters, OHV users, and even from home construction. It doesn't make sense to take torches to the forest and then claim it's fine because fire is natural.
Fire is going to happen to a certain level, given a certain evironment. Again, if people show up and start burning everything around them, fires that would not have happened at all will burn valuable places. I don't need to have preventative fires wash through my living room to maintain an acceptable level of destruction; I just don't do things that will burn down my house inside.
Removing the human-caused fires from the picture will reduce the number of fires but the fuel will still be there, the fires that remain will be bigger.
Fire is going to happen. The more you prevent fire the bigger the fire becomes when it does happen.