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Wildfire(s) in California
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<blockquote data-quote="ppine" data-source="post: 460058" data-attributes="member: 22555"><p>Hi LDubs,</p><p>The main difference between the Gold Rush days and now is that in the old days people logged the countryside with no regulations. It took a lot of wood to build houses, timber frame the mines, run railroads, and keep houses warm and run all of that steam powered equipment. Areas around settlements were denuded of vegetation. Now the same places are overgrown with vegetation that have turned into fire traps. </p><p></p><p>The railroads and the mining era photographs did a good job of documenting what vegetative conditions looked like a long time ago. There are thousands of photo pairs taken then and now from the same location. There are books full of them. Fire suppression and radically different amounts of logging have had more to do with it than the amount of people living there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ppine, post: 460058, member: 22555"] Hi LDubs, The main difference between the Gold Rush days and now is that in the old days people logged the countryside with no regulations. It took a lot of wood to build houses, timber frame the mines, run railroads, and keep houses warm and run all of that steam powered equipment. Areas around settlements were denuded of vegetation. Now the same places are overgrown with vegetation that have turned into fire traps. The railroads and the mining era photographs did a good job of documenting what vegetative conditions looked like a long time ago. There are thousands of photo pairs taken then and now from the same location. There are books full of them. Fire suppression and radically different amounts of logging have had more to do with it than the amount of people living there. [/QUOTE]
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