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IS SMOKEY HOKEY?
“Fire is a natural part of the environment, about as important as rain and sunshine. Fire has always been here and everything good evolved from it.” - Dr. Harold Biswell Dr. Biswell leads us to ask… Should we prevent forest fires? (#597)
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Along the Food Chain with Michael Olson…

IS SMOKEY HOKEY?

(Food Chain Radio #597)

 

Twenty years ago, Yellowstone Park burned to the ground. Last year, the Florida Everglades burned themselves out. This month, a lightning storm ignited over a thousand wildland fires in California.

Preeminent fire scientist Dr. Harold Biswell tells us, Fire is a natural part of the environment, about as important as rain and sunshine. Fire has always been here and everything good evolved from it.
Everything good evolved from fire? If such is the case, we pause to ask

Should we prevent forest-fires?

If we prevent forest-fires, which has been the public policy for decades, our environment will store fuel until it, quite literally, explodes. Add a twenty-knot wind, and you have a rapid oxidation that no human enterprise can stop, as witnessed in Yellowstone Park, Florida and California.

If we do not prevent forest fires, people will lose their homes, and nobody wants to watch that kind of pain on the evening news.

Can fire be the source of good, as Professor Biswell claims? Or is fire evil, as Smokey the Bear maintains?

Should we prevent forest fires?

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