[HN Gopher] CA asks Native American Tribes to help prevent wildf...
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       CA asks Native American Tribes to help prevent wildfires with
       traditional burns
        
       Author : gscott
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-04-12 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cnn.com)
        
       | logicalmonster wrote:
       | So forest management is now useful?
       | 
       | Just a reminder about what the "fact-checkers" told us about this
       | topic.
       | 
       | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/trump-biden-c...
        
         | ummonk wrote:
         | There weren't any "fact-checkers" in that article, but it looks
         | like the experts interviewed in that article agreed that poor
         | forest management was an important contributor to bad
         | wildfires. Incidentally, the article also pointed out that the
         | majority of land in California is federally managed.
        
       | 8bitsrule wrote:
       | Good news and extraordinarily well-written coverage.
        
       | exabrial wrote:
       | In college, I volunteered with a wildlife club where we burned
       | open range. It was hot tiring work, and you were usually in for a
       | lot longer shift than you volunteered for.
       | 
       | Talking with the biology and environmental professors, I learned
       | a lot this is one of the most important aspects of environmental
       | preservation. The primary reason is it removes invasive species
       | and leaves the native ones to carbon fixate. The native species
       | have evolved eons ago to deal with wildfires, where as invasive
       | ones have not. The invasive specifies drive off native ones,
       | decreasing the entire biomass of the ecosystem. By taking a small
       | temporary hit in emissions, you end up creating a flora of
       | grasses to absorb more carbon.
       | 
       | And that doesn't speak to the native animal and insect species
       | that rely on the same natural cycle.
        
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