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    drunkapeMaggie Lange
    8/28/13 4:09pm

    At least Florida is burning...:)

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      swampelitistdrunkape
      8/28/13 4:11pm

      the interesting thing is that the large area just S-SE of Lake Okeechobee is a 470,000 acre agricultural area where they primarily grow sugarcane, which is burned before harvest (and must be what we see on this map)

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      Pdxproperdrunkape
      8/28/13 4:14pm

      drunkape (appropriate name) thanks for sharing the hateful bigot point of view.

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    SchweepsMaggie Lange
    8/28/13 4:16pm

    Isn't it rather the opposite, that the low rate of wildfires in the 80s and 90s was the weird thing (I'm looking at you, Smokey the Bear) and the environment just needs forest/wildfires to be healthy?

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      Jecht342Schweeps
      8/28/13 4:33pm

      It's something that needs to be in balance. Too much is bad, as is too little. I don't know if there was an especially low rate in the 80s and 90s or not and that would certainly be something to consider. Most areas shouldn't see a fire every year, or even every few, though. They need the fires as they are an important part of the life cycle of many plants, but they also need time in between to recover.

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    MakeMeSmileMaggie Lange
    8/28/13 4:29pm

    Just heartbreaking. I was in MT this summer and was told that increasing winter temperatures due to global warming was causing this. It snows a lot less than it used to and the resulting snowfall is not enough to keep the forest wet and fire-resistant in the hot, dry summer. There were fires everywhere as we traveled the northern part of the state.

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      cesariojpnMaggie Lange
      8/28/13 5:30pm

      Another new normal: Sharks feeding on the tourists in Hawaii at least once a week.

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