Ep. 450: Apical Dominance
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Role of Fire in Ecosystems
In vermont we have like 400 acres of wildfire a year mostly brush burners getting out of control at the wrong time of year it's after snow melt before leaf out so point is we don't have these days great incidents of wildland fire. We've done an incredibly good job of eliminating it to the detriment of the ecological kind of functioning and now we have monocultures and we have that clear-cutting plant and keep fire out. This is just a recipe for disaster and you're seeing it now with climate change exacerbated by mountain pine beetle. Even ecologically i think there's a case is made that we got to get this right and we were a long way from being right
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