Posted on 05/31/2019 11:02:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
So, in addition to constantly being at war, raping their enemies wives and taking their enemies as slaves or torturing them enemies to death, Native Americans were wholesale burning forests. They must have been Republicans.
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My guess is dry conditions and lightning.
Or SUVs.
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And the more vicious tribes were, Trump Republicans!
Me too. For about four hours at a time. No desire to stay there for much more than that.
So will Elizabeth Warren become an outdoor arsonist?
So will Elizabeth Warren become an outdoor arsonist?
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It’s an old family tradition, no doubt.
Stone age people have done these things for 1000s of years.
New growth after a forest fire is more edible and nutritious for wild game. This was land management toward increasing the meat supply.
“a huge pile of coal in the basement....”
And that heavy IRON DOOR low on the wall outside the coal storage room where thru the coal was delivered...THOSE WERE THE DAYS !! And after a few years, got a “stoker” to ‘automate’ the coal feeding....
I can still remember,shaking the ashes down, shoveling the coal from the coal bin——and then turning the dampers etc.
Seems like yesterday.
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Yep, dirty, sooty, smelly.................It was fun................
It was that——or freeze. I DID love the old hissing, steam heat radiators though.
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Careful, there’s a strong push by the progressives to make people believe burning forests with wildfires is the best way to manage. The bigger the wildfire, the better is what they’re trying to brainwash us with.
It’s all nonsense.
Go in, get the logs, drive them out and sell them.
didn’t we see somewhere that the massive burning of the North American East Coast forests contributed to the Little Ice Age in Europe?
I doubt it, but that kinda rings a bell, as well, maybe we’ve got a topic around here somewhere...
Meanwhile...
http://www.google.com/search?q=new+england’s+darkest+day
I suspect that burning the understory during calm weather helped reduce the number of lightening caused wildfires that destroyed forests. Early settlers found large numbers of trees with 4 and more feet diameter trunks in forests that were burned regularly. Also the Shenandoah Valley and later prairies north of the Green River around Kentucky (if I remember correctly) were burned regularly to maintain a “buffalo common” where all Indians could hunt at will. I read about this elsewhere.
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