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This area is starkly beautiful,and well worth a visit.Reminds me of home.

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What about the wildlife living there?

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@Tokyo-m, is a type of control fire burning. Is necessary to do this. Because eventually these dead grass will still burn during hot weather. But then it's more out of control. So every country do this to minimize certain area's to prevent large fires from happening. Sure there is some air pollution but its better than having large scales fires when too much dead leaves and grass piled up. You might not know this, but a lot of places around the world do this to preserve the environment.

I once went to a lecture that talk about fires in plains or in forests. Even in a forest you must not prevent certain fires from happening or had to start intentionally ones. If you don't maintain it and use small scale fires to reduce some, eventually the forest intself get sick due to overgrowth and when so much fuel get piles up, large fires happen that are almost impossible to stop during extreme hot summers.

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In Australia it's called "hazard reduction". Our First Nations people have practised this land management technique for thousands of years.

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There is a similar event in my town, Kumamoto. Burning the overgrowth does not destroy the roots; the will thrive in the spring. What it does do is destroy seedling trees, which otherwise would turn a field into a forest.

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If controlled burning such as this could be done in the American West it might put a stop to some of the wild fires that pose such a danger.

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