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by burnt-resistor 25 days ago
Btw, 100 years of forest fire elimination has left old growth trees vulnerable to death by scorching when forest fires do come through. The answer is a difficult one: for humans to move flammable litter away from the trunks of old growth trees manually; inconveniently, Rake America Great Again is partially correct, unintentionally. It's a problem that humans have created that nature cannot fix itself.