Thanks for the great read! I learned a lot about forest fires in different ecosystems during one of my college ecology classes and was always very fascinated by the idea of fires helping those different ecosystems. I live in Michigan and one of the ecosystems that we have here that is fire dependent would be our Jack Pine Forest up in the north of the Lower Peninsula and in the Upper Peninsula as well. The Jack pine trees rely on fire in order to create sunlit areas which would they would not have access to because the area would normally be dominated by different trees like Oaks. There is a conservation effects that is really fun to monitor when I'm visiting up north in the summer, the Kirkland Warblers have become endangered because they nest and the Jack pine trees and rely on the fires to keep the Jack pines at an age level which is suitable for their nesting. The DNR up there does prescribed burnings to help cycle the Jack Pine Forest and keep the Kirkland Warblers, and lots of other wildlife, able to thrive in that area. When you're up north there's always lots of Smokey the Bear signs that used to say "Only you can prevent forest fires" but all those signs have now been changed to "Only you can prevent wildfires" because forest fires aren't necessarily bad but wildfires are because they're not planned. I also thoigh that was really cool! 😁
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Hi, @justfordogz. Thanks for leaving such a good comment here! It's really nice to be able to read about people who have more experience with these things than I have myself, so thanks again for sharing your story with us.
I'm pretty sure the United States are the world leaders when it comes to using forest fires as a conservation tool, but it seems to be a very effective tools when applied correctly.