http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-policy/blaze-fierce-in-ca-despite-resistant-vegetation/ Ecological science, news, and policy from the Ecological Society of America Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:19:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.esa.org/esablog/ecology-in-policy/blaze-fierce-in-ca-despite-resistant-vegetation/comment-page-1/#comment-14197 OscarG Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:40:18 +0000 http://www.esa.org/esablog/?p=1745#comment-14197 The problem is that for a hundred years fires have been suppressed. Before then, most of California (and much of North America) was burned every few years, so places like Ponderosa forest were mostly grass-covered.

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