[gerbilly]

Are you seriously suggesting that the indigenous were practising controlled burns over millions of hectares of boreal forest?

I find this 'sweep your floors' meme a bit of an oddity:

1. It involves conservatives casting native americans in a good light. Who's going to argue with that?

2. It contains a false epiphany which just feels right (the solution to forest fires is...fires)

3. It contains a grain of truth. Native americans did perform controlled burns, and in the NW they did take care of salmon streams etc, but not on a scale that would prevent today's wildfires.

It's a classic diversion from climate change, and our terrible 'foresty' practices of cutting down forests and planting monocrops of high resin species all packed together and calling it reforestation and finally, spraying entire valleys with roundup (often where indigenous people live of course)

[pookha]

There was something like 10 times more hectares being burned as far back as 1850. https://www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF22090

We've effectively stopped this with modern fire suppression techniques and have fewer managed burns...Parks Canada only had 12 last year. And here's a story where they ran out of funding and had to defer burns:

https://www.rmoutlook.com/local-news/parks-canada-prescribed...

Not good. I think you can focus on climate change while at the same time have a conservationist approach.