Smokey the Bear Ad

[Blackwell]

Smokey Bear has never faded here in the forest :P He's at all our parades and events, and we have a variety of fire prevention programs and events. He shows up at most of them. Let's not give him to the greenies, and he is very much not a zombie just because you city types haven't seen him in awhile :D

That is actually kind of interesting. I live near the Daniel Boone National Forest and I can't think of any time I've seen him or any of the "only you..." messages. It's probably the difference in location. I'm guessing you're located closer to "big timber" parks where our parks are more gorge, rock, trail and river related.

Don't laugh but the park up the road from me is named Big Bone Lick State Park.

[Rightwing Nutjob]

Florida, low-level fires caused by lightning would clear away fuels on the ground. Trees would generally survive them. I've heard that some tribes would actually start some of those fires as well, but I'm not certain the why and how they did that enough to explain details. They certainly burned camas fields in Oregon.

Since the ecoweenies have pretty much ended logging in the Northwest while still putting out forest fires, the fuel loads are high, making fires here bigger and more devastating to the forests.

I think your California wildfires are pretty much in the southern part of the state, Florida, not in the forested northern part of the state.

Blackwell, hehe. I laughed. Anyway, you're near a park. Perhaps the difference. It's mostly Forest Service, BLM and private forests around me with small parks, county, state and federal, what was once what you might call working timber.