We took the Lake McDonald boat tour at Glacier National Park last year on the last day of the season. The “Ridge Fire” devastated the area in the 2018 summer. The boat cruise had an excellent tour guide and he spend a lot of time discussing the ecology of the fire, its restorative aspects, succession forests, etc. It was an ugly denuded ridge, miles long with standing charred, dead trees. You see the ugliness in a new light after listening to that guide.
The Yellowstone fires of ‘88 were collectively a watershed moment (ostensibly).
Yet ‘science’ hypocritically moves that and other demonstrable research aside as ‘outliers’...