FOREST FIRES

Forests grow in the wilderness.
Real forests occasionally burn.
Fires can be good for the ecology of the forest.
Some forest folk (animals) even benefit from the effects of a fire.

Enter the forest subdivisions, and their inhabitants, the non-forest foresters.
They are not hunters or fisherpeople, but rather non-foresters.

Now you have a new reality. There is a big word for this, but reality will do.

Fires in non-forest subdivisions HAVE to be put out...quickly!

They do NO good there.

They are not natural.

Fires in a real forest are often, even usually natural.
They will burn and they will go out.
They do not have TO BE PUT OUT.

And the forest will return.

And the forest will most likely prosper and do well.

The point: It is ludricous to devote huge, maximum efforts to save homes in real forests.

Homes in real forests are in ... fuel.

There is a natural danger, a natural need, for the fuel to occasionally burn.

It is like.... it is natural for floods to occur in flood plains (sp?). Homes built in/on them will occasionally get flooded.

IT IS NATURAL!

Get used to it.

If you don't want to pay the freight, get out.

Spare the non-foresters like us from having to pay taxes to rebuild unprepared properties situated in fuel...and spare us the endless news coverage of homes being treated naturally by Mom or Dad Nature.