Thread: In the garden 2021

Originally Posted by planeden

I'm trying to figure out how they saved the tree. Was the grass green and wet so burned low and slow?

Many trees are resistant to fire and frequent grass fires don't bother them.

It is when man stopped the "normal" fire cycle that changed the environment.

Of course everything changes and what man does is just part of that......

I grew up on the edge of the Midwestern Oak Savanna. Now a days there is so much underbrush etc. in what may be left.

In my opinion so much of the wild fire problems that are occurring recently are the result of man stopping the natural fires and then building their house in the middle of the kindle factory created.

I look at many pictures of the fires in California for example and the houses are burnt but the tree in the front yard is still green?