I suspect a lot of that has to do with where "here" and "there" are. To get the ground to turn into glass here in New England would require tremendous heat as even when its very dry its still fairly wet. If you were already starting from fairly dry I suspect that you'd require less heat to dry things out before glassifying and your forests would burn much more readily and more easily create more heat. As you've got a lot less under brush I'd bet the winds whip up a lot better in a fire too.
Huge regional variation across this great land of ours yet it seems like our political idiots feel like one management schema always makes the most sense. -Curt Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:22:11 -0600 From: Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] From wet to dry ... Message-ID: <20130604112211.e7ec073d49af7c0c1f44b...@pisquared.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > "The sterilized ground left behind won't support much life at all for > years" Now Max that part just isn't true at all. The ground isn't > sterilized and life comes back almost immediately. There are even > plants (mostly trees I think) that REQUIRE fire before their seeds will > open. > > Fire is natures forest refresher. What you say, Curt, is true for small forest fires, those that don't get very hot. For very large, very hot fires, however, that is not true. The top surface of the soil is glazed like glass and repels water. All of the vegetative material, even that below the soil, is destroyed. We have had those kinds of fires near where we live here in New Mexico. Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
