Posted on 08/14/2023 5:55:06 AM PDT by BansheeBill
From the title: What kind of invasive grass spontaneously combusts?
More from... INVASIVE GRASSES HAVE STARTED THE MAUI FIRESTORM
One of my first thoughts when I heard about this was does Hawaii do prescription burns......given its an Uber lib state more than likely full of tree huggers I doubt it.
right. I believe this load of poo. This is right up there with bat soup causing Covid.
Fire hydrants with no water probably didn’t help.
Another Democrat utopia burning to the ground.
Looked like the fire started at the base of the mountains/hills behind Lahaina.
Swept down over grasslands into Lahaina.
Lots of old wooden structures in Lahaina that caught fire.
Fire jumped roads and even burned up boats sitting in water in the harbor.
Lots of politics already with this fire.
There will be several bad decisions that caused and contributed to this fire.
happens...i’m in upstate ny....happens here, too.
the wind was the killer...and of course, their state of the art warning system failed....and i’m betting it was yurned off because it had a couple of false alarms. who was monitoring it?
Every living thing on those islands is “invasive”.
This “grass fire cycle” plays out in the Great Basin of the American West too. The invasive species known as Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is the culprit here. It’s changing the landscape, and in a very bad way.
Cogongrass is a serious invasive problem. The grass burns very hot. Cogongrass spreads infinitely via rhizomes up to 4ft underground and via seeds. With the deep underground rhizomes, cogongrass is the first plant life to recover after a fire has wiped out other plant life.
Cogon grass, in its home (or one of its homes), the Philippines, isnt much of a problem, even in the dry season, because it is animal fodder.
Graze more animals.
The forestry agent showed me a picture of a bobcat (machinery) passing by a wall of cogingrass and the flames were arching over the bobcat thanks to the cogongrass. He couldn’t stress enough that it needed to be eradicated.
“One of my first thoughts when I heard about this was does Hawaii do prescription burns.”
Very good question. I know they are, or were back in the 70’s, done in California.
The state of Florida does prescription burns, and even though its is the lightning state capital of the US wild fires are still so rare I can’t remember the last one.
Sounds like the whole island could use a couple million gallons of ROUNDUP.
Due to the deep rhizomes of cogongrass, eradication is a multi-year process in any area.
The story has a major cause called out right in there. They stopped raising sugarcane, or most other agriculture. Those vast fields of grass aren’t in agricultural use, probably because Hawaiian costs are too high.
Bring back agriculture.
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