[palmer]

As more and more fires rage in drought times it will possibly increase CO2.

Drop in the bucket. Also bray is absolutely correct that younger forests are healthier and they absorb more CO2. Low intensity wildfire is a good way to obtain a healthier forest. Some older trees survive but the fire makes room for younger trees.

[bray]

Exactly right, the most effective oxygen producing tree is the first 40-60 years and then they begin dying. Proper stewardship requires thinning the herd on a regular basis.

There is no drought this year as we and CA have had the coolest and shortest summer on record.

[rodguy911]

That all makes sense. But, I think bray is concerned about not cleaning out underbrush which ignites and spreads fires everywhere which is normally done by reputable forest land owners.

Once again thanks for all you NN and others do on our hurricane threads it really means a lot to many of us.

[Alas Babylon!]

Burning down the forest to make new growth is something Native Americans did for centuries before Columbus, in both American continents.

They say the pristine landscape the original English settlers found was only that way because European diseases had killed off almost all of the Indians by the early 17th Century...

So much for the peaceful, gentle lovers of Motha Erf!

I’m talking to you, fake Indian Italian guy with the feathers and single tear!