Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted August 30, 2013 Root Admin ID:722743 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Rim Fire: Yosemite blaze is 6th largest in California; time-lapse video (map, photos)Yosemite National Park - Rim Fire Time Lapse, August 2013Raging California wildfire threatens more of Yosemite Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWB Posted August 30, 2013 ID:722780 Share Posted August 30, 2013 that is a fair sized fire .i hope they did a better job of forest management than they did many years ago at yellowstone ...because of a lack of letting small fires clear out the brush and undergrowth this provided fuel for a catastrophic burn . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted August 30, 2013 ID:722822 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Wow, that's crazy.... hate to see our forests go to waste like this..... Ron is this anywhere close to you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted August 30, 2013 ID:722831 Share Posted August 30, 2013 The forest doesn't go to waste. Fire has always been a part of forest renewal. Culling older trees and allowing new ones to sprout. In fact, Serotinous cones require the heat of fire to open and release their Pine seeds. I follow the Giaia theory that life promotes life and death is part of the life cycle. The burning of old forests releases free carbon and other nutrients back into the soil. Sapiens don't like it because it disrupts their homes and the renewal happens too slowly for one generation to take full appreciation of the life cycle. I feel for the lives of my fellow Americans whose lives are disrupted and whose homes may be destroyed but at the same time I'll rejoice in how the forest recovers and splendour in its majesty and beauty when it does and it will. It also goes to prove that each and every corner of the country has its own forms of pending disaster scenario. Volcanoes in the North West, Earthquakes on the Left Coast, hurricanes on the Gulf Coast and East Coast, Tornadoes in the mid-west, mud-slides in mountainous areas, heavy snows, yada, yada... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted August 30, 2013 ID:722841 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Well said, DHL. Sadly, according to info in one of Ron's links: one major section of the park that has burned this week had been replanted as recently as 1987, after the last major fire in that area. So, it was still recovering and now has been wiped out again.One must also consider the human factor (in terms of forest management practices) that may (or may not) have contributed to natural vulnerability to wildfire in this area. All of this serves to remind us that we are always at the whim of very powerful natural forces over which we really exert little true control. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted August 30, 2013 ID:722887 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Well David, when you put it like that, its hard to disagree.... I was directing it more to the lives and homes that get destroyed, but I do see you point.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted August 30, 2013 ID:722896 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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