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*It denudes the landscape. Unlike marshy Chicago, much of NM's landscape is pretty much solid rock with a very very thin layer of topsoil that trees, grasses, etc. manage to barely hold on to. If those trees or grasses get taken away, there's nothing to absorb the water that falls later.
*It alters the flow of water. If a half-burned tree falls over, suddenly you have a little dam built. Add hundreds upon hundreds of similar bits of wood, and now all of a sudden, water doesn't flow into the same places it used to. Imagine your sink without a disposall and a whole bunch of food scraps dumped in. Eventually the water goes elsewhere.
Sure it looks bad... but the really cool thing is forests fires have been happening for millions of years - long before man. It's nature's way of clearing the dead wood and rejuvenating the forest with new growth and food for its denizens.
Sure it looks bad... but the really cool thing is forests fires have been happening for millions of years - long before man. It's nature's way of clearing the dead wood and rejuvenating the forest with new growth and food for its denizens.
Yep! And the fact that fire is controlled/supressed as much as possible because of development means that the current tree cover/number is far greater than it would ever have been had nature been left to take its course.
Yep! And the fact that fire is controlled/supressed as much as possible because of development means that the current tree cover/number is far greater than it would ever have been had nature been left to take its course.
Yep... tiz a delicate balance, indeed.
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