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Published: 2017-11-10 02:23:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 337; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 24
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This is Swan Lake, which is situated along the Alaska Highway in northern BC, 1-2 hours before sunset. The Mountain in the back is called Mt. Francis. The burned area in the back has been destroyed by a wildfire in 2004. There are other areas close by that got destroyed by a wildfire back in 1958. You could still see all the burned trees and new trees were just coming through. 60 years and it's still not back to the way it was. Regrowth is pretty darn slow up here. From the perspective of a rather short-lived human being (in the grand scheme of things, I think it's a strange thing that wildfires are a vital part of the ecosystem.Location: Swan Lake, Stikine Region, British Columbia, Canada
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Your point that we are here for a relatively short time is an important one. In the grand scheme of things human beings have only been here for a very short time too, in total. The planet has been going an awful lot longer than we have. Things take time and we can be too impatient with nature sometimes. It has amazing powers of recovery.
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I know right? It might take a few million years, a time period we just can't imagine, but planet earth is probably going to recover in that time from whatever we will do to it. I mean, it managed to recover from some major crises before, long before humans existed.
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Thank you, glad you like it!
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Hab ich dich richtig verstanden, dass diese Feuer durch Blitzschläge und nicht durch Menschen ausgelöst wurden ?
Tolles Farbspektrum !
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Ja das ist richtig und das ist auch seit eh und je so und gehört zum Ökosystem hier dazu. Es ist sozusagen der natürliche Mechanismus für die Waldernerung, da es Platz und Licht für neue Bäume schafft. Die Zapfen der Nadelbäume öffnen sich durch die Hitze.
Die Feuer in Westkanada und dem Westen der USA werden nur inzwischen schlimmer und umfangreicher wegen des Klimawandels. Mehr Dürre, mehr Hitze. Und einige werden natürlich auch von Menschen ausgelöst (siehe Glacier Nationalpark).
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Very neat view.
I didn't know there they they dont try and place new tree's into the ground there like they do in different places of california. Well they use to back when I was a kid. They would clean up the burned area and place new seedling tree's into the ground and let them grow. It takes many many years for earth to pop back.
~Kenni
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Well, they treat nature like nature up here. I think it's better that they aren't replacing any trees and just let nature go its own way. In California they probably do it in forestry areas and recreational parks?
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Out in the middle of no where really in the national parks. They use to after a fire clean it up like I said and then replant down the same tree's as before. Was part of a program they did. In the area I grew up in a fire tore it apart and they don't do that anymore and the other thing that came back was manzanita and it's been 17 years. Te downside with that is it's a shrub that will explode again if there is another fire. ((They make big booms!)) They do have water content in the leafs that you can chew if you run out of water. I find them as an ugly little bush that look ugly. hahaha.
~Kenni
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Well I suppose in some countries they do that in National Parks as well. It strikes me as weird but yeah, I get it if the fire was caused by humans.
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Yes some people do make me so sick. I wish they got into more trouble for starting the fires than just a fine.
~Kenni
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Yeah me, too. It's kind of insane in how much trouble you get when you set fire to a house, even if it doesn't fully burn down, compared to burning down a couple hundred acres of forest.
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I know right!? I can't believe it!
~Kenni
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Someday we will have a just world...when humans are gone.
Man, I'm such a cynic.
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I think that day is coming sooner then we all think.
~Kenni
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I wish but I doubt it to be honest. Humanity got too clever for its own sake. I think the peaceful times might end sooner than we think or hope but I doubt the human race is going to be extinct anytime soon.
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yea nature doesn't look at time the same way we do...
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Yup. We think we live a long life but stuff like that makes you realise that our lifetime is just as long as a blink of an eye in the gran scheme of things.
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