Possibly this is not what the homeowners, city, and county had in mind, however.
I like to point at things like this whenever people around here are talking about "save the Pine Bush". "The only way to save the Pine Bush is to burn it. Not just small 'controlled burn' areas but square miles of conflagration that will wipe out all human civilization in the area."
If we choose to live in areas that normally go through a boom-bust cycle including lots of fire, we are of course putting ourselves in the path of that fire... and if we try to stop it from happening, as you say, without a lot of foresight -- and the APPLICATION of that foresight -- we will get burned...
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There will be some minor side-effects.
Possibly this is not what the homeowners, city, and county had in mind, however.
I like to point at things like this whenever people around here are talking about "save the Pine Bush". "The only way to save the Pine Bush is to burn it. Not just small 'controlled burn' areas but square miles of conflagration that will wipe out all human civilization in the area."
If we choose to live in areas that normally go through a boom-bust cycle including lots of fire, we are of course putting ourselves in the path of that fire... and if we try to stop it from happening, as you say, without a lot of foresight -- and the APPLICATION of that foresight -- we will get burned...