Misconceptions and Benefits of Fire

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  • Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
  • The most common misconception of wildfire is that all fire is bad. But there are important benefits that smaller and more frequent fires offer to the environment. Matt Jolly, an ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, talks about the natural and important role of fire in maintaining a healthy ecosystem.

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  • @rangerboy29
    @rangerboy29 5 років тому +12

    Thanks for sharing! Some of the strangest looks I get are when I tell people why wildfires can be really good for forests, and that we've become exceedingly effective at fighting wildfire.

    • @killman369547
      @killman369547 4 роки тому +3

      Yeah, it's ok to let a wildifre do it's thing, we only need intervene when the fire becomes particularly intense and or threatens human life and property.

    • @annekincannon-kf3hx
      @annekincannon-kf3hx Рік тому +1

      So tell us why it is good for forest because the video didn’t.

    • @alpenglw4743
      @alpenglw4743 Рік тому +1

      @@annekincannon-kf3hx Reduces tree overcrowding, limits fuel buildup, encourages new healthy plant growth, allows more sunlight to hit the forest floor, creates better foraging habitat for deer and other animals, increases water flow in streams, creates the right conditions for certain plants to reproduce, prevents hot crown fires from burning entire forests to the ground, etc!

    • @thenightwatchman1598
      @thenightwatchman1598 Місяць тому

      @@killman369547 "oh no. my million dollar cabin i built deep in the woods miles away from any city has no fire protection! who could have ever seen this coming!"

  • @sohowsoon6652
    @sohowsoon6652 5 років тому +9

    fire bath thank you for your service on behalf of all of US

  • @neomayer
    @neomayer 5 років тому +4

    excellent video on a very important piece of the fire pie. Thanks for making and sharing!

  • @XperfectdazesX
    @XperfectdazesX Рік тому +1

    Good information, thanks for posting :)

  • @Kauffman578
    @Kauffman578 3 роки тому +10

    It also destroys invasive species

    • @annekincannon-kf3hx
      @annekincannon-kf3hx Рік тому

      Um yeah ,along with native species. Fire is the chemotherapy of the forest. It destroys everything.

  • @ono48
    @ono48 4 роки тому +2

    Who came here after the Australian bushfires?

  • @annekincannon-kf3hx
    @annekincannon-kf3hx Рік тому +3

    Undergrowth does not need to be cleared by fire. It rots quickly. He also never says how fire benefits the ecosystem. It’s one man’s erroneous opinion.

    • @n3wj3rs3y
      @n3wj3rs3y Рік тому

      🧢

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes Рік тому +1

      Yah no. In a drought the undergrowth dries up, not rots.

    • @anygiventrail
      @anygiventrail 4 місяці тому

      Guess you didn’t watch the video clearly. He explains plenty, for example, about releasing seeds from pinecones. Burning underbrush has been long understood as beneficial. Even native Americans performed prescribed burns.

    • @Wild_Maryland
      @Wild_Maryland 3 місяці тому +1

      He literally explained why it's important to an ecosystem. Watch it again. You may need to watch it a dozen times.

    • @thenightwatchman1598
      @thenightwatchman1598 Місяць тому

      you are such a greenwashed fool. did you take your vax like a good boy too?

  • @flemishbear9658
    @flemishbear9658 3 роки тому +7

    watching the news is like watching satan explain how the world works

  • @thenightwatchman1598
    @thenightwatchman1598 Місяць тому

    why this video from the official us park service channel is getting so few views in place of MSM news climate alarmist soundbites its just depressing. park rangers will never go woke.

  • @cathykaech5900
    @cathykaech5900 5 років тому +4

    logging is much less destructive, produces health in the forest, and doesn't kill huge amounts of wildlife.

    • @annekincannon-kf3hx
      @annekincannon-kf3hx Рік тому +1

      Finally someone with a brain.

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes Рік тому

      No it does not.

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes Рік тому +1

      @@annekincannon-kf3hxyah neither of you do.

    • @Wild_Maryland
      @Wild_Maryland 3 місяці тому

      False. lol

    • @MrPhillip-o5m
      @MrPhillip-o5m 3 місяці тому +1

      😂 there have been forest fires for thousands of years. The wildlife survived.

  • @bigbird2240
    @bigbird2240 Рік тому

    The ones that caused all the problem trying to explain it

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes Рік тому

      Sure thing buddy

    • @jamesmckay9966
      @jamesmckay9966 4 місяці тому +1

      WHAT ARE TALKING ABOUT? ALL YOU HAVE IS AN OPINION. SORRY TO BE SO HARSH BUT I CAN NOT STAND BY FOR SUCH BIASED UNINFORMED AND UNREALISTIC RIDICULE. FOR SHAM.