19 Jan
2004
19 Jan
'04
2:26 p.m.
At 03:57 PM 1/19/2004, Henry Baker wrote:
It now appears that a proper way to deal with forest fires might be to lay out a geometric grid pattern of some type, color it with 6-8 colors, and then burn the part of the forest of that color each 6-8 years _on purpose_. If properly laid out, the burns of previous years would be natural firebreaks, and by burning on a shorter schedule, it wouldn't be possible to build up enough fuel to get the temperatures so hot as to kill all the larger trees -- e.g., the sequoias. Such smaller, cooler burns also recover much faster --
It "now appears"? Foresters have been doing that for at least 40-50 years.