Low fire risk landscapes
Challenging the norm of prescribed burning

* "Research shows long-unburnt forests act to limit fire without human intervention – even as the climate changes."

"Would it be worth removing the short-term defence of prescribed burning to bring forests back to a less flammable state?"

"In our new study, we examined whether phasing out prescribed burning could help Australian forests endure climate change. The answer was clear: it’s entirely possible to stop the cycle of fire feeding more fire, and help forests endure new climatic conditions."
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https://theconversation.com/in-1939-a-royal-commission-found-burning-forests-leads-to-more-bushfires-but-this-cycle-of-destruction-can-be-stopped-269099

* Are the alternative ecosystem states produced by positive fire-flammability feedbacks reversible? Philip J Zylstra and David B Lindenmayer 2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 124037DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae18e7
#fires #bushfires #Megafires #PrescribedBurning #BritishColonialism #pastoralism #loggingImpacts #climate #GHG #forests #destruction #biodiversity #ecosystems #conservation

Megafires - A rethink is needed

"We should not forget that Australia’s 2019-20 megafires were the predictable consequence of climate change.The alternative fire management approaches we suggest will likely fail if climate change continues unabated.

"Bushfire management agencies aim to reduce fire risks through frequent fuel-reduction burning...But our research suggests this practice, which increases fire frequency, may create larger disruptions to ecosystems when big bushfires occur...Alternative approaches to large-scale prescribed burning are required.">>
https://theconversation.com/catastrophic-declines-massive-data-haul-reveals-why-so-many-plants-and-animals-suffer-after-fire-241691
#bushfires #megafires #BlackSummer #incineration #biodiversity #FossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #PrescribedBurning #RightWay #fire

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

This extensive article from #Wisconsin shows examples of how improvements in land use can be environmental issues but also legal issues.

When #indigenous people try to use land with long-term goals, barriers arise from states and federal government ignoring treaty rights which protect the environment. Good News: Interactions between gov't and tribes are improving slowly.

@zhawanoong

#Ojibwe #WildRice #Environment #PrescribedBurning

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/26/great-lakes-native-tribes-knowledge-key-to-climate-change/71602778007/