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In the humble view of this East Coaster, there is much to be
said for burning the whole LA area (or at least Orange County) every two
years. Allowing that doing so could induce a mean smog during a
temperature inversion, two weeks of smog every two years strikes me
as far preferable to more than 50 weeks of smog every
year.
Fred
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Subject: Re: off topic: different
cultures, same ideas
I've a stock response
when someone suggests that the Los Angeles area
would benefit from using
past Indian "wisdom" to manage the local
environment: "Oh
goody! We're going to set fire to Orange County
every other
year!"
(For the curious-- Range fires tend to burn off smaller twigs
and
branches on shrubs, but leave them alive, so the following
spring
you get a lot of new buds and young green branches. These tend
to
be high in sugar-rich sap, which attracts deer and other
browsing
animals, which simplifies hunting deer... So every so often
local
Indians did set fire to the flat lands in the LA area. And then
of
course, thermal inversions trapped the smoke in the LA
basin,
creating smog centuries before cars were
invented.)
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From: George
Scithers
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Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002
21:49:21 -0400
It would be satisfying to refute the goody-goody image
of the
environmentally sensitive Amerindians . . .
George Scithers
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