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Originally Posted by Nox
Huge difference between culling back old growth and what burns in California. What causes California to burn is the extreme dry tinder coupled with winds. These plants that burn down neighborhoods were just seedlings a few months before. They grow into chaparral in a short rainy season, they dry out and burn a few months later. You can’t control burn what doesn’t exist. California is on an annual cycle not measured in centuries of old growth.
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Originally Posted by Broken Wind
I never understood why CA burned until I lived there. The vegetation is what we call kindling here.
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So just cut it down when maybe 1/4 size and let it die out after a few years of doing that.....no more growth, no more fuel.....
