•Ponderosa Pine trees evolved with fire.
–Thus they need fire to maintain overall health.
•Certain insects need fire to regenerate.
-The Melanophila Beetle
•Lodge pole has a serotinous cone that only opens in extreme heat.
-It needs to experience a fire in order to hatch new seedlings.
--Soil uses fire char to replenish it’s nutrients.
-Greenhouse gases from fire and decomposition trapped heat in the atmosphere, at the
beginning of time, and warmed the world up to a point that it would sustain human life.
-After a study of hundred of forest fires in the northwest, James Agee at the University of Washington, ascertain that 68 percent of all forest fires are started by lightening during thunderstorms.
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