[Delphinium]

Letting naturally started fires burn would be proper. (Actually, my preferred way of 'celebrating' Earth Day is putting up a poster showing a wildfire and the caption "do what comes naturally".) If we somehow artificially prevented all lightning, then it would be proper to deliberately restore lightning to start fires the way nature intended.

Well good then I hope lighting strikes your home, and enviroment. You will have a back to nature experience.

[ctdonath2]

So charitable of you to say so. So kind of you to wish ill upon me instead of trying to get my point.

Nature gets pretty screwed up when we try to control it. Declare a "no forest fires" policy, and enough tinder & fuel build up to devestate everything (see the great Yellowstone fire about a decade ago). Eliminate a critical predator, and overpopulating prey similarly screws things up.

Point is that when you start seriously trying to redirect nature, you usually regret it...and perversely forget what ultimately caused you grief in the first place.