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This is largely a forest management issue and not one of global heating.

Forest management used to focus on eliminating fires entirely. This has the impact of building up brush to the point where any fire became massive. They thought they were reducing fires, but they actually just increased amplitude and decreased frequency.

It’s kinda like dams for flood control, but with different time scales. A few dams for flood control reduces flood frequency massively, and we build up population centers in what was previously deserted floodplain. Then a flood (dam failure eg Oroville came pretty close) has a huuuuge systemic and possibly chain reaction, trading semiannual road blockages from minor flooding into one Whoa Noah every hundred years.



This is incorrect.

You can’t manager a tinder dry forest with fire anymore because the droughts and dry seasons are becoming hotter and dryer than in recorded history.

What land management would fix this issue because deforestation?

The only thing that probably needs to be reincorporated in Australia is indigenous cold fire burns when the time is right.


Well, what if ecosystem is changing due to GW from forests to veld?

How fire management could help if forest fires are main tool to move from forest to veld - forest will burn and replaced by bushes and grass




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