Study: Fire suppression has killed Wisconsin's pine barrens
- Thread starter Teegate
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I agree some what. Fire suppression is just one factor that kills the pine barrens. Urban sprawl is just as much to blame If not more. Large tracks are clear cut and developed whether it's commercial or residential. What's left is small parcels that are left to be "green acres" that can't thrive in the same manner that it was before. We have a prescribed burning program here in NJ hat has been copied throughout the country to help slow the process down. I admit I'd like to see it even more aggressive but as our pines get cut up into smaller pieces it's impossible to for prescribe burns to happen and a switch over to total suppression will occur in areas. Sorry for the rant but the biggest threat to the pines are humans and fire suppression is only one aspect of it.