IIRC, the wild west was similar and they say if we got it back to what it was, we wouldn’t have so many forest fires.
I was once told that a higher percentage of the North American continent is currently forested than was the case at the time of Lewis and Clark. The person who told me this was probably in as good a position as anybody to know, and had no real reason to lie. Before the westward population expansion, the great plains were regularly ravaged by prairie fires. A lightning strike in Nebraska could easily burn several surrounding states.
Nowadays, the local fire department responds and puts it out.
“IIRC, the wild west was similar and they say if we got it back to what it was, we wouldn’t have so many forest fires.”
Actually, out here in Arizona the Apaches who control their forests and are not bothered by the environmentalists and their rules, regularly maintain their forest by clearing out areas of bush and whatnot. They haven’t got the amount of forest fires that ‘we’ Americans do, because we’re not allowed to do that, because of the environmentalists.