The European "managed forest" practice tries to keep much of potential fuel out of the forest is soon as practical- meaning controled selective cutting and allowing "gleaning" of damaged wood by individuals looking for firewood and building material. Couple years back the Spanish had many small fires during the drought, but few large fires since the endanged woods had only a years accumulation for fuel with few exceptions-- and the exceptions were where the local "greens" had stopped the old practice of pruning dead branches and allowing the open "gleaning" in the "public" forests. US practice for past many years has been the Green practice of no timber cutting, no salvage cutting of damaged wood, no getting slash cuts allowed to be used by campers or nearby residents for home use. Got to let nature take care of the molding and recycling- and Momma Nature says time to burn the trash, toss in a match -(or lightning bolt) so can let bristlcone pines reseed. Mexican practice in Baja area was let small fires burn, don"t build in the area just graze cattle and goats. US practice was build a suburb, don"t let in grazing critters, don"t chop down trees and clear the privacy screens- but can"t water in drought because of water shortage so dead brush piles up and when it catches fire need to stomp it out so expensive house don"t burn. This works awhile- but when conditions are right for a flash fire the houses get burned, some people die and the disaster cost hits over million in block of houses. Meantime the Mexicans with the annual small fire move the cattle out and let it burn to the plowed fire break, save money and next year the burned small patch gets disked and planted in corn and beans for couple years, then back to graze. Saves a lot of money, loss of life and slow cows (and maybe Mary Jane patch)about only thing in danger of being burned. RN
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