A fire suppression aircraft battling a wildland fire in northern Minnesota on Friday was reportedly struck by a bullet while scooping water from a lake.
“Battle” is usually meant figuratively when fighting wildfires.
What’s worse is the thought that forests can’t take care of themselves absent human involvement. These huge fires are because humans artificially prevented the natural cycle of fires for more than a century. Now with so much built up overgrowth, it is out of control.
The usual method of the forest taking care of the itself is burning. Trying to extinguish the fires to protect houses that should not exist there in the first place is the unnatural part.
What’s worse is the thought that forests can’t take care of themselves absent human involvement. These huge fires are because humans artificially prevented the natural cycle of fires for more than a century. Now with so much built up overgrowth, it is out of control.
The usual method of the forest taking care of the itself is burning. Trying to extinguish the fires to protect houses that should not exist there in the first place is the unnatural part.
So can we rake it and use it what we collect for anything useful?
I think people do that already :D