[pvaldes]

All forests in the planet follow basically the same rule. The more time left undisturbed, the more water will fix in the area. Top ecosystems in the chain have typically plenty of water. Lower forms have less and less water and are more unstable.

"There are huge wildfires because no water in the area".

This is a lie that we tell ourselves. There is not water in the area because wildfires. Many of this fires were deliberated crimes and would have burn with or without water. The lack of water is a scar of a previous attack.

Somebody should build a forest Matrioska with a tiny cow cranium in the inner figure. Maybe this way the people would finally understand the obvious rule. After a few thousand years untouched, all forests became "rainforests".

[bequanna]

> After a few thousand years untouched, all forests became "rainforests".

Yea… I’m pretty sure this isn’t true.

There are many remote forests in Canada for example that haven’t been logged maybe ever and those areas still experience occasional large scale wildfires.

[zdragnar]

There are a number of species whose seeds don't germinate without wildfire. Not all regional climates are equal.

[pvaldes]

Of course, but they will not appear, or be residual in the climax of the ecosystems. Its strategy is live fast and leave a beautiful charred corpse. The normal trend in this planet is to replace this opportunists by other species when the ecosystems mature. See "theory of stress" in ecology.

In short a little stress is good, for both ecosystems and humans, (it develops a better immune system). But too much stress is catastrofic, and this is the current situation with the "clean forest" mantra.