08 May 1890, 6 – Minneapolis Messenger at Newspapers.com
New Mexico had huge forest fires in 1890, and now the tallest Aspen trees in the world grow where the fires burned.
08 May 1890, 6 – Minneapolis Messenger at Newspapers.com
New Mexico had huge forest fires in 1890, and now the tallest Aspen trees in the world grow where the fires burned.
Ok so did Sweden, Portugal and Greece have terrifying forest fires at the same time?
Probably
EU Southern States fires have decreased massively in the past 30 years so they cannot use lack of technology for stopping fires as an excuse.
The Greek wild fire near Marathon was arson – pure and simple. It actually happened in quite mild weather.
Yes, in 1890 we did not have agenda crazed environmentalists setting fires everywhere to score political points.
Ms Terak is looking for cherries! Alarmists sure are picky little bitches.
California “forest” fires: These are mostly grass and brush and scraggly oak trees, and thick underbrush that virtually explodes when it burns. These aren’t Giant Sequoias and Redwood forests burning. Many of these fires are started *purposely* or by gross negligence. Everyone who lives here knows that you need to do *brush control* around your dwelling. Calling these “forest fires” is misleading
The Big Burn of 1910 in Idaho and Montana burned over 3 million acres. The book by the same name is an interesting read about progressives and their failures.
Back in 1890, Smart Phones were not able to see the dramatic fires burning in Greece at that time.
Aug 4, 1890: Terrible fires burning on Mount Athos wiped out the forests and destroyed the monasteries there.
A few weeks later…
Aug 24, 1890: The forests on Mount Pentelicus were on fire, destroying the excavations of the American School of Archaeology there.
October 8, 1871—the same night that Catherine O’Leary’s cow tipped over a lantern in her barn and thus burned down Chicago, displacing >100,000 residents and causing $222 million in damages—the great Peshtigo Fire in northeastern Wisconsin, the deadliest wildfire ever to have hit the U.S., took place. That year was unusually dry and windy as well. Who knew that we would ever have to deal with fires again in this country?
Western USA has massive forest fires every year. Are there any current studies of how these burned area have regenerated? 5 years later, 10, years later? What kind of foliage?
Careful and intense studies have clearly indicated that the regenerated foliage is primarily combustible.