I've just recently started watching your videos, and I must say that I am enjoying them immensely. Your combination of information and dry humor is addicting. But not only are your videos entertaining, they are informative and helpful, providing an educational effect. I'm seventy years old, and still enjoy learning a thing or two every now and then. Keep up the good work!
Another thought provoking video from the Forested Lands of Wilson. Here in the UK, the use of fire to manage woodlands is unheard of. It rains a lot here. BUT, fire management has always been used on heaths (still used in the New Forest) and moors. Both of these are dwarf shrub communities rather than woodlands/forests. Controlled burns were always done early in the year when the subsurface is still winter-wet but frost and winds have dried the vegetation. The result is a quick burn that leaves hibernating herpetiles and insects (as well as dormant plants) intact. Done too late and they can be much more damaging. If the habitat has progressed too far towards woodland, these fast burns may well cause scarring on larger oaks, birches, etc. Another burn and the dead wood in the scars may catch and burn for days. I've worked on safety felling oaks after a burn in late March on a pasture woodland+ SSSI*. 2' diameter reduced to 10" at the base and a big canopy can be dodgy. On that site the ground vegetation was dominated by bracken, promoted by fires. We do have large fires, which can burn hundreds of acres - mostly on heathlands and scrub but can take in forestry plantations, woodland and houses. Sadly many of these fires aren't wildfires (although increasingly referred to as such in the media) but are big, uncontrolled, unplanned fires that are deliberately started. Presumably by arseh*les. So perhaps these should be called 'arseh*le fires'. + pasture woodland - woodland with scattered, often very old and pollarded trees that has been grazed by livestock for generations. Frequently support great biodiversity value. Sometimes ancient woodland, like Epping Forest, Ashtead Common. The trees can be centuries old, rotted out and hollow in the centre (but still stable) with quite a bit of biodiversity associated with being old, hollow and rotten. But very vulnerable to fire. * SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest. (We Brits are so great with the language unless appointed to a position where what you call something matters. Or they become a politician). One of the most highly protected land designations in these sceptic isles. 'Duff layer'. A hen that is too old to lay much but eats as much as ever.
Years ago working for a large timber company, a lot of our time was spent doing prescribed burns. A large crew would burn 1000 acres a day on a good day. We would line up an walk straight through the tract of timber from one forestry road to another about 50' apart stringing fire. The reason we did this was to prevent forest fires "no fuel" and burning off the Duff down to the humas was supposed to be good for the pines according to the company's biologists. In my view, as a forest firefighter during fire season, one less out of control fire was very welcoming.
When I see how pines cover the ground in highly flammable needles, makes me think they want the duff to burn. Oh yeah and that’s how forest fires get started. 😁
Have always been amazed by how effectively trees in the PNW have become adapted to surviving fire. And you exactly right about national forest fire policy of put out any and all fire. We were driven I think by a combination of logging interests and just human fear of free fire we didn't set. Thanks for another informative video, And doesn't the rest of the world revolve around us and our opinions.
We used to thin, graze and log the forest which replaced natural mortality in the woods, then we stopped logging and the fuel loads massively increased and we were told that these high intensity fires were “natural”. The preservationist agenda has set back the natural progression of a forest by centuries.
On the topic of Foresters; ask any 3 Foresters the same question and you'll likely get 7 answers... (With the only common answer being: "It Depends!") No burning here, we're at 3.07" rainfall for the month, which is at or exceeding the entire May average. Cheers and "Thumbs-up" from your soggy neighbour in Linn County
With regards to the duff, it depends. In part, having too hot of a fire after too long of a period of duff build up and you can burn the soil, and that can cause hydrophobia, but too frequent fire will not carry as there will not be enough dead down fine fuels, or duff, and then you miss the natural mulch capabilities of the duff. The natural way to have things was really to have grass and herbaceous plants, which will carry fire regardless of duff build up, so long as cured and dry or mostly dry. Also, in the NW USA, you rely on deep soil moisture for a lot of the summer growth, so shallow soil moisture and duff is not necessary. Too thick of duff will preserve soil moisture so long as your primary soil recharge is snow melt from a deep snow pack. However, if you rely heavily on summer rains, as happens in the SW USA with the monsoon season summer thunderstorms, then a thick duff layer can inhibit soil moisture as the duff will capture that moisture and has to saturate before the soil. That thick duff then can and will eventually burn with stem char and girdling of the trees, root damage and death, and pathogens entering the tree at the ground level. In general, because you have a fire maintained and dependent ecosystem, keep duff to a lower level and think like fire. If that can carry a fire, it can, and it will, and so after more than a few years, you should be burning it. It can act like a mulch for a few years as it builds up, but once it gets to thick the negative affects will outweigh the positive affects
It’s fascinating to see how things are done around this beautiful country and you explain things so well and it’s fun. Your forest are vastly different than our deep south swamps and pine plantations.
Great video! To your point on the duff, it is beneficial to burn duff for the reasons you mentioned, but also to cycle nutrients, especially in these dry forests. While duff does retain soil moisture the benefits of nutrient cycling every few years would far outweigh keeping the duff for water.
Just subscribed. Love your channel. Had a jippo logging company 30-40 years ago. Another benefit of previous burn is it initiates burl and fiquring if the tree survives! Ar least in my experience .
Even if they don’t fully burl I have seen some really nice figure where the tree has healed around a fire scar. Thanks for the comment and welcome to the channel.
Cut eucalyptus like that with my mobile dimensional saw. Warped blade but raised edger blade to leave a wild edge and made a dining room table that was spectacular despite my poor skills
Below the Knee - Low Intensity. Cool burning makes forests healthy. Black Ground - White Smoke. Not White Ground and Black Smoke (hot canopy fire). "There is no good or bad fire, only the right fire" - Victor Steffensen.
Good stuff as always Mr. Wilson. I took advantage of the snow storm yesterday and went up in the snow and cut piled and burned some low limbs, maybe a few tiny standing dead trees too. Just keep pecking away at it.
@@WilsonForestLands no worries Mr. Wilson👍 The pole-saw that came in sucked and I sent it back after trying it out clearing some fallen trees off a BLM road with it. I’m looking at upgrading to the Husky 540i XP or 542i XP commercial saws. Looks like they’d work the best for fuel reduction as far as battery saws go. Spendy though, especially if you go with the battery backpack.
Taking nature out of nature. Personally, I just don't think that's natural. Oh well. This video was a great lesson on low intensive fires preventing destructive highly intensive fires. Good forest management. Fighting fire with fire. For those of you who didn't watch the last video on him burning, please go back and watch it. He did the burn when it was damp and getting ready to rain. This is so the fire doesn't get out of hand. In fact, he had to help the fire to keep burning. That's what you call a controlled burn.
Thank you for that comment. My previous burn was so controlled it was almost out of control in the opposite direction. Couldn’t control it to go very well.
Good topic! On our Farm we do some controlled slash burning, but here at homeshop the neighbors' properties are too close. I think the neighbor might frown on it if I set his boat on fire....lol I'm looking at small scale chippers to be a possible option here. I am also not allergic to poison Ivy or Oak, but Needles get me...
I recently had a dozen or so large trees removed from around my house. They had been through a fairly intense fire in the 90's (before I built obviously) and were quite scared up. I was getting worried about their integrity, so I had an arborist look them over. It was pretty obviously they had rotted out in the scar areas. The Arborist said there was not a lot of structural strength left in the trees. Being in an area susceptible to cyclones I made the choice to remove them. But they had survived for more than 30 years since the original damage.
Some species are more tolerant than others. Some will rot fairly quickly after a fire scar, others can last hundreds of years. I didn’t think too but could have mentioned that in the video.
For poison ivy, you can build resistance to it. Every morning I roll in it every morning and stuff a bunch in my shirt and down my pants to maintain mine 😣
I sure wish that was true... I've learned to scrub the poison oil off ASAP and if I get a rash it is very small and minor. I also avoid the plants as much as possible. It's sent me to the hospital a few times so I'm leery of trying to "build immunity." 🤠
@@trenomas1 I'll testify to increasing sensitivity as you get older.....I could go about the woods in short sleeve shirts and poke around with nary any reaction to poison ivy....now, couple decades later the welts rise but still not like other folks I know who just blow up. Always long pants....tick heaven "here" (Texas)
Often the reason that fire would burn the uphills sides of trees is due to the fact that when fire moves uphill it will wrap around the tree and burn the backside much more intensely. Like a oar moving through water you get the swirls behind it. Same goes for the tree and the scars will be on the opposite sides of the direction of the fire.
in northern michigan we burned our land every 10 year's only cause the land had a log book that went to the back to the 1800"s and we just figured it was just a good time to get familly and freinds together and if you ask me the land does look better than that was not b urned
Most fires are started by lighting and when pushed by a strong winds the fire will race thru the crown of the trees where all the gas is stored in the branches . The heat is so intense the fire will create its own weather. That is what you call a wild fire at this time there is no way of stopping so crews are pulled out . Mr. Wilson cleaning the forest floor with fire would not prevent this kind of fire maybe would prevent a fire from a careless smoker or camper Maybe check to see if his lumber is torrefied
Lightning caused fires in our climate usually don’t blow up during the thunderstorm. That is usually a time of high humidity and lower temperatures. Some isolated wind around storms but not sustained wind liking other parts of the country. Lightning caused fires here usually blow up days later after the lightning storms are gone and we go back to hot weather with very low humidity. Most of the acreage here burns long after a lightning storm starts the fires. The fires here get lit by lightning storms, sometimes early in the summer and commonly burn weeks and months after they get started. You end up with a few places that get scorched hot when the wind is blowing. You get a lot of areas that end up with a slow creeping fire through much of the burn when the wind isn’t blowing. It is not uncommon to have fires tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of acres started by lightning in this area. About 30% of the acreage burned is high intensity, 70% of acreage is low intensity.
What was the metal cylindrical object? A sprayer to kill the poison oak? LOL. We had a fire here about 10 or 12 years ago and the hills just out of town were so covered in poison oak I opened my clinic on a Saturday and spent all morning giving cortisone shots to very miserable wild land fire fighters. Some were weeping so badly they had to take a couple of days off to wait for the cortisone to help. Fire fighters do not take any time off !
Not wrong, per se; the Bear just needs amendments to his message occasionally. (On a related sidenote; Sam Elliot, the current voice of said S. Bear, lives a few miles from me in South Linn County, OR. Super nice guy.)
@@willbass2869 Kermit the Frog Atilla the Hun Richard the Bruce Jabba the Hutt Bill the Cat I don't know where this "Smokey Bear" nonsense came from. Bear is not a family name, it is a description of what he is.
Funny how mother nature does so well until we decide we have to help. JUST SAYING. Here on the east coast we started clear cutting. now all around the clear cut we have blow downs way more than before, and more fuel when we do get a fire.
my question What's the difference between a forest fire then a wildfire? both are a fire or was i sleeping that day in high school class lol the question was brought up by politicians they did not answer the question at all as to whether the difference is a loophole for the insurance to wiggle them self out of paying out money I'd have forest fire insurance to cover my loss in my standing timer the word from the politicians named it a wildfire i don't have that coverage in 2018 a tornado went thew my yard the person who looked at the weather maps after the damage was done named it as a stone wind from that my home was not covered by the insurance company first reason when the house was build cost 3.5 million Canadian dollars back then engineer came out and look at the standing timber frame structure damage to the build had to we did put a sign on the building to stay off of it the building is unsafe to walk on the insurance inspector tore off the warning sign he was told it was able to be fixed he opened the door to the house it did come down on top of him i am in court with the insurance company as to the weather guy did have this info look at but different places to all did say the same thing that late in the summer here you would not think it was a tornado but all did agree on it was one rated it a number 7 strength one yes i did have the coverage I did not known i had it the added it on to make me pay more for the insurance lol the did taken my money that morning from me it was a million dollars coverage with all of the museum pieces i had in the house to i did have the text me the payment was paid Now it says it takes 20 wording days to process the paper I did not cover them but i should been if i had insurance before hand
Not sure about the "EF 7" tornado or insurance parts; (insurance companies will ALWAYS weasel out of paying what they owe), but as to the difference between "Wildfire" and "Forest fire" it is simply this: size. Size, as in acreage burned and dollar amounts destroyed. Put another way, "Wildfire" is generally synonymous with "catastrophic" in terms of size and damage. "Forest fire" is generally small and easily contained, but could obviously grow into a Wildfire. One more example: "Forest fire" to "Wildfire": roughly the difference between a "Dust Devil" and a full-blown Tornado. Hope that helps.
Good jeans can protect your lungs from poison Ivy smoke? I noticed you always wear good jeans. New looking, no holes, Levi’s prolly, being a west coaster, Wranglers are more popular down here on the gulf coast… oh GENES. Never mind.
HI Mike your old burns look desolate what happens to the termites' worms' alga' fungi' and any insect that thrive in the forest floor.The largest trees that I know grow in a rain forest that are in a virgin form untouched by fire or man. Your method reminds me of the forest service spraying to kill off all broadleaf plants like huckleberry and fireweed that is posted do not eat berries. Someone forgot bear, deer,and other animals can,t read.
I think if you return to this burnt area in a few years, you would likely see more biodiversity eventually, compared to untouched areas with these same tree species present, particularly in the US. Some larger tracts of resinous forestry are as close to a monoculture as you'll find. I would put money on these scorched areas ceventually ontaining more browse than unburnt areas, and any regrowth of plants rushing up to exploit the gaps and char-filled fertile soil would attract animals whose scat would promote the development of a healthy biome.
Maybe it didn’t show up in the video but everywhere I burned there is a lot of new greenery sprouting up. In some cases more greenery than there is in unburned places with thick duff. Maybe the logs and woody material didn’t show up in the video either. In our coastal rainforest we have more of the situation you describe. Big trees with thick duff layers. A lot of shallow rooted trees that feed off those duff layers. In the coastal fog forests, fires were not historically common and that’s what the forest have adapted to. In these hot dry inland areas we have more deep rooted trees and very few roots close to the surface. Different situations for different climates.
Forgot to mention the fungi. Mushroom pickers commonly flock to areas after forest fire. Burns are well known for being abundant mushroom picking spots.
@@yonmusak How come there is so many mud slides after ground fires good luck growing on soil washed away to the ocean. My point what does a ground fire do for the tree burn the bark into a charred mess. I can see the point burning field of grass for a new year of growth. Having a forest full of burned tree butts is not my cup of tea as I dont think it does the tree any value. Some people collect tree leaves to fertilize there garden instead of burning.
@@EINNHOJ100 I suppose that's why he's conducting controlled burning, and takes into consideration factors like this. He knows what he's doing dude. What do you do in the forests you own? For the forest I own in Europe (mature hardwood with some coppice), wildfire would be a nightmare. Use cases vary.
A few may get burned up if there is some material on the ground they are in. If a higher intensity fire kills some pine trees, the freshly killed trees can attract them. Reduced competition after a fire can also make the live trees more resistant to the beetles. Fire can be a double edge sword there depending on the intensity.
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I've just recently started watching your videos, and I must say that I am enjoying them immensely. Your combination of information and dry humor is addicting. But not only are your videos entertaining, they are informative and helpful, providing an educational effect. I'm seventy years old, and still enjoy learning a thing or two every now and then. Keep up the good work!
We enjoy Wilson's humour as well. It keeps us coming back for more.
I love this guy.
Thank you Marvin and welcome to the channel.
Another thought provoking video from the Forested Lands of Wilson. Here in the UK, the use of fire to manage woodlands is unheard of. It rains a lot here. BUT, fire management has always been used on heaths (still used in the New Forest) and moors. Both of these are dwarf shrub communities rather than woodlands/forests. Controlled burns were always done early in the year when the subsurface is still winter-wet but frost and winds have dried the vegetation. The result is a quick burn that leaves hibernating herpetiles and insects (as well as dormant plants) intact. Done too late and they can be much more damaging. If the habitat has progressed too far towards woodland, these fast burns may well cause scarring on larger oaks, birches, etc. Another burn and the dead wood in the scars may catch and burn for days. I've worked on safety felling oaks after a burn in late March on a pasture woodland+ SSSI*. 2' diameter reduced to 10" at the base and a big canopy can be dodgy. On that site the ground vegetation was dominated by bracken, promoted by fires.
We do have large fires, which can burn hundreds of acres - mostly on heathlands and scrub but can take in forestry plantations, woodland and houses. Sadly many of these fires aren't wildfires (although increasingly referred to as such in the media) but are big, uncontrolled, unplanned fires that are deliberately started. Presumably by arseh*les. So perhaps these should be called 'arseh*le fires'.
+ pasture woodland - woodland with scattered, often very old and pollarded trees that has been grazed by livestock for generations. Frequently support great biodiversity value. Sometimes ancient woodland, like Epping Forest, Ashtead Common. The trees can be centuries old, rotted out and hollow in the centre (but still stable) with quite a bit of biodiversity associated with being old, hollow and rotten. But very vulnerable to fire.
* SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest. (We Brits are so great with the language unless appointed to a position where what you call something matters. Or they become a politician). One of the most highly protected land designations in these sceptic isles.
'Duff layer'. A hen that is too old to lay much but eats as much as ever.
Agreement regarding the designation of "arseh*le fires." We have (too many of them) as well.
Interesting stuff. Now I’m going to think of a chicken every time I think of the word duff layer. 😂
Years ago working for a large timber company, a lot of our time was spent doing prescribed burns. A large crew would burn 1000 acres a day on a good day. We would line up an walk straight through the tract of timber from one forestry road to another about 50' apart stringing fire. The reason we did this was to prevent forest fires "no fuel" and burning off the Duff down to the humas was supposed to be good for the pines according to the company's biologists. In my view, as a forest firefighter during fire season, one less out of control fire was very welcoming.
When I see how pines cover the ground in highly flammable needles, makes me think they want the duff to burn.
Oh yeah and that’s how forest fires get started. 😁
@@WilsonForestLands lol, you got me.....
Have always been amazed by how effectively trees in the PNW have become adapted to surviving fire. And you exactly right about national forest fire policy of put out any and all fire. We were driven I think by a combination of logging interests and just human fear of free fire we didn't set.
Thanks for another informative video, And doesn't the rest of the world revolve around us and our opinions.
We used to thin, graze and log the forest which replaced natural mortality in the woods, then we stopped logging and the fuel loads massively increased and we were told that these high intensity fires were “natural”. The preservationist agenda has set back the natural progression of a forest by centuries.
They better revolve around us and our opinions, otherwise they would be wrong. 😁
On the topic of Foresters; ask any 3 Foresters the same question and you'll likely get 7 answers...
(With the only common answer being: "It Depends!")
No burning here, we're at 3.07" rainfall for the month, which is at or exceeding the entire May average.
Cheers and "Thumbs-up" from your soggy neighbour in Linn County
With regards to the duff, it depends. In part, having too hot of a fire after too long of a period of duff build up and you can burn the soil, and that can cause hydrophobia, but too frequent fire will not carry as there will not be enough dead down fine fuels, or duff, and then you miss the natural mulch capabilities of the duff. The natural way to have things was really to have grass and herbaceous plants, which will carry fire regardless of duff build up, so long as cured and dry or mostly dry. Also, in the NW USA, you rely on deep soil moisture for a lot of the summer growth, so shallow soil moisture and duff is not necessary.
Too thick of duff will preserve soil moisture so long as your primary soil recharge is snow melt from a deep snow pack. However, if you rely heavily on summer rains, as happens in the SW USA with the monsoon season summer thunderstorms, then a thick duff layer can inhibit soil moisture as the duff will capture that moisture and has to saturate before the soil. That thick duff then can and will eventually burn with stem char and girdling of the trees, root damage and death, and pathogens entering the tree at the ground level.
In general, because you have a fire maintained and dependent ecosystem, keep duff to a lower level and think like fire. If that can carry a fire, it can, and it will, and so after more than a few years, you should be burning it. It can act like a mulch for a few years as it builds up, but once it gets to thick the negative affects will outweigh the positive affects
Thank you.
This was very interesting and sensefull.
Wit wisdom. And the woods. Good old Mr Wilson . Good way to start a day!
Thank you for the explanation, Michael. Videos like this is why i keep watching and your humor too😉👍
I am happy to have you watching and always appreciate your comments.
Good. California should watch this video.
Yep and the California border is not far from here.
Good talk about controlled fires
It’s fascinating to see how things are done around this beautiful country and you explain things so well and it’s fun. Your forest are vastly different than our deep south swamps and pine plantations.
Thank you for the comment. That’s one of the fun things about TH-cam, getting to see how people do things differently in the different environments.
I'm about to purchase some land and I'm looking forward to being a productive steward.
Thanks for the guidance. Keep it up.
Great video! To your point on the duff, it is beneficial to burn duff for the reasons you mentioned, but also to cycle nutrients, especially in these dry forests. While duff does retain soil moisture the benefits of nutrient cycling every few years would far outweigh keeping the duff for water.
Just subscribed. Love your channel. Had a jippo logging company 30-40 years ago. Another benefit of previous burn is it initiates burl and fiquring if the tree survives! Ar least in my experience .
Even if they don’t fully burl I have seen some really nice figure where the tree has healed around a fire scar. Thanks for the comment and welcome to the channel.
@@WilsonForestLands yeah can't say for absolute sure but my amateur dendrachronology lines up with previous fire
Cut eucalyptus like that with my mobile dimensional saw. Warped blade but raised edger blade to leave a wild edge and made a dining room table that was spectacular despite my poor skills
Excellent video!! Thanks
Below the Knee - Low Intensity.
Cool burning makes forests healthy.
Black Ground - White Smoke. Not White Ground and Black Smoke (hot canopy fire).
"There is no good or bad fire, only the right fire" - Victor Steffensen.
👍
Good stuff as always Mr. Wilson. I took advantage of the snow storm yesterday and went up in the snow and cut piled and burned some low limbs, maybe a few tiny standing dead trees too. Just keep pecking away at it.
That reminds me I need to get back to your email. Haven’t had much time for comments or emails.
@@WilsonForestLands no worries Mr. Wilson👍 The pole-saw that came in sucked and I sent it back after trying it out clearing some fallen trees off a BLM road with it. I’m looking at upgrading to the Husky 540i XP or 542i XP commercial saws. Looks like they’d work the best for fuel reduction as far as battery saws go. Spendy though, especially if you go with the battery backpack.
Taking nature out of nature. Personally, I just don't think that's natural. Oh well. This video was a great lesson on low intensive fires preventing destructive highly intensive fires. Good forest management. Fighting fire with fire. For those of you who didn't watch the last video on him burning, please go back and watch it. He did the burn when it was damp and getting ready to rain. This is so the fire doesn't get out of hand. In fact, he had to help the fire to keep burning. That's what you call a controlled burn.
Thank you for that comment. My previous burn was so controlled it was almost out of control in the opposite direction. Couldn’t control it to go very well.
Good topic! On our Farm we do some controlled slash burning, but here at homeshop the neighbors' properties are too close. I think the neighbor might frown on it if I set his boat on fire....lol I'm looking at small scale chippers to be a possible option here. I am also not allergic to poison Ivy or Oak, but Needles get me...
I love people with common
I recently had a dozen or so large trees removed from around my house. They had been through a fairly intense fire in the 90's (before I built obviously) and were quite scared up. I was getting worried about their integrity, so I had an arborist look them over. It was pretty obviously they had rotted out in the scar areas. The Arborist said there was not a lot of structural strength left in the trees. Being in an area susceptible to cyclones I made the choice to remove them. But they had survived for more than 30 years since the original damage.
Some species are more tolerant than others. Some will rot fairly quickly after a fire scar, others can last hundreds of years. I didn’t think too but could have mentioned that in the video.
I would be interested to hear more about the regulatory regime for prescribed fire
For poison ivy, you can build resistance to it. Every morning I roll in it every morning and stuff a bunch in my shirt and down my pants to maintain mine 😣
Lol. I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. People tend to get more sensitive over time.
Chuckling at the picture... Yeah, I just steer clear as best I might and shower upon return from the work zone. Then hope.
I sure wish that was true... I've learned to scrub the poison oil off ASAP and if I get a rash it is very small and minor. I also avoid the plants as much as possible. It's sent me to the hospital a few times so I'm leery of trying to "build immunity." 🤠
@@johnoswald6192 Urushiol, the poison oil, is another name for SATAN.
@@trenomas1 I'll testify to increasing sensitivity as you get older.....I could go about the woods in short sleeve shirts and poke around with nary any reaction to poison ivy....now, couple decades later the welts rise but still not like other folks I know who just blow up.
Always long pants....tick heaven "here" (Texas)
Often the reason that fire would burn the uphills sides of trees is due to the fact that when fire moves uphill it will wrap around the tree and burn the backside much more intensely. Like a oar moving through water you get the swirls behind it. Same goes for the tree and the scars will be on the opposite sides of the direction of the fire.
Very interesting, then add more fuel to the equation on the upper side.
If you’re hunting in Ontario, that’s an eight-pointer!
in northern michigan we burned our land every 10 year's only cause the land had a log book that went to the back to the 1800"s and we just figured it was just a good time to get familly and freinds together and if you ask me the land does look better than that was not b urned
I think you are right, a lot of land does look better after a good burn. Sounds like a good time with friends and family.
Interesting
Most fires are started by lighting and when pushed by a strong winds the fire will race thru the crown of the trees where all the gas is stored in the branches . The heat is so intense the fire will create its own weather. That is what you call a wild fire at this time there is no way of stopping so crews are pulled out . Mr. Wilson cleaning the forest floor with fire would not prevent this kind of fire maybe would prevent a fire from a careless smoker or camper Maybe check to see if his lumber is torrefied
Lightning caused fires in our climate usually don’t blow up during the thunderstorm. That is usually a time of high humidity and lower temperatures. Some isolated wind around storms but not sustained wind liking other parts of the country. Lightning caused fires here usually blow up days later after the lightning storms are gone and we go back to hot weather with very low humidity.
Most of the acreage here burns long after a lightning storm starts the fires. The fires here get lit by lightning storms, sometimes early in the summer and commonly burn weeks and months after they get started. You end up with a few places that get scorched hot when the wind is blowing. You get a lot of areas that end up with a slow creeping fire through much of the burn when the wind isn’t blowing. It is not uncommon to have fires tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of acres started by lightning in this area. About 30% of the acreage burned is high intensity, 70% of acreage is low intensity.
Talking about Slash and then Duff. Is this a Guns n Roses channel?
What was the metal cylindrical object? A sprayer to kill the poison oak? LOL. We had a fire here about 10 or 12 years ago and the hills just out of town were so covered in poison oak I opened my clinic on a Saturday and spent all morning giving cortisone shots to very miserable wild land fire fighters. Some were weeping so badly they had to take a couple of days off to wait for the cortisone to help. Fire fighters do not take any time off !
That’s a sprayer with water I had when I was burning. In case I needed to put out any hotspots.
Oh no! Was Smokey The Bear wrong!? 😁🤣
It depends 😅
His name is Smokey Bear, no "the".
Given name followed by family name (European style)
Lol
@@pleinairbarnettoutdoors Love IT!
(Thanks for the validation!!)
Not wrong, per se; the Bear just needs amendments to his message occasionally.
(On a related sidenote; Sam Elliot, the current voice of said S. Bear, lives a few miles from me in South Linn County, OR. Super nice guy.)
@@willbass2869 Kermit the Frog
Atilla the Hun
Richard the Bruce
Jabba the Hutt
Bill the Cat
I don't know where this "Smokey Bear" nonsense came from. Bear is not a family name, it is a description of what he is.
Use common sense....😱😱😳😳..... That's a subject for another video 🙂🙂. Good stuff nicely done.
Maybe even a video series. 😁
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Funny how mother nature does so well until we decide we have to help. JUST SAYING. Here on the east coast we started clear cutting. now all around the clear cut we have blow downs way more than before, and more fuel when we do get a fire.
That’s what I spent a lot of last summer doing. Cleaning up from the blow downs from the clearcut next to my coast property.
my question
What's the difference between a forest fire then a wildfire?
both are a fire or was i sleeping that day in high school class lol
the question was brought up by politicians they did not answer the question at all as to whether the difference is a loophole for the insurance to wiggle them self out of paying out money I'd have forest fire insurance to cover my loss in my standing timer
the word from the politicians named it a wildfire i don't have that coverage in 2018 a tornado went thew my yard the person who looked at the weather maps after the damage was done named it as a stone wind from that my home was not covered by the insurance company first reason when the house was build cost 3.5 million Canadian dollars back then engineer came out and look at the standing timber frame structure damage to the build had to
we did put a sign on the building to stay off of it the building is unsafe to walk on the insurance inspector tore off the warning sign he was told it was able to be fixed he opened the door to the house it did come down on top of him i am in court with the insurance company as to the weather guy did have this info look at but different places to all did say the same thing that late in the summer here you would not think it was a tornado but all did agree on it was one rated it a number 7 strength one yes i did have the coverage I did not known i had it the added it on to make me pay more for the insurance lol the did taken my money that morning from me it was a million dollars coverage with all of the museum pieces i had in the house to i did have the text me the payment was paid
Now it says it takes 20 wording days to process the paper I did not cover them but i should been if i had insurance before hand
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Not sure about the "EF 7" tornado or insurance parts; (insurance companies will ALWAYS weasel out of paying what they owe), but as to the difference between "Wildfire" and "Forest fire" it is simply this: size.
Size, as in acreage burned and dollar amounts destroyed.
Put another way, "Wildfire" is generally synonymous with "catastrophic" in terms of size and damage. "Forest fire" is generally small and easily contained, but could obviously grow into a Wildfire.
One more example: "Forest fire" to "Wildfire": roughly the difference between a "Dust Devil" and a full-blown Tornado.
Hope that helps.
Good jeans can protect your lungs from poison Ivy smoke? I noticed you always wear good jeans. New looking, no holes, Levi’s prolly, being a west coaster, Wranglers are more popular down here on the gulf coast… oh GENES. Never mind.
Another awesome video! Seems like the gubment should use your level of common sense!!
Seems like the gubment should do a lot of things that are different than the way they do it.
HI Mike your old burns look desolate what happens to the termites' worms' alga' fungi' and any insect that thrive in the forest floor.The largest trees that I know grow in a rain forest that are in a virgin form untouched by fire or man. Your method reminds me of the forest service spraying to kill off all broadleaf plants like huckleberry and fireweed that is posted do not eat berries. Someone forgot bear, deer,and other animals can,t read.
I think if you return to this burnt area in a few years, you would likely see more biodiversity eventually, compared to untouched areas with these same tree species present, particularly in the US. Some larger tracts of resinous forestry are as close to a monoculture as you'll find. I would put money on these scorched areas ceventually ontaining more browse than unburnt areas, and any regrowth of plants rushing up to exploit the gaps and char-filled fertile soil would attract animals whose scat would promote the development of a healthy biome.
Maybe it didn’t show up in the video but everywhere I burned there is a lot of new greenery sprouting up. In some cases more greenery than there is in unburned places with thick duff. Maybe the logs and woody material didn’t show up in the video either. In our coastal rainforest we have more of the situation you describe. Big trees with thick duff layers. A lot of shallow rooted trees that feed off those duff layers. In the coastal fog forests, fires were not historically common and that’s what the forest have adapted to. In these hot dry inland areas we have more deep rooted trees and very few roots close to the surface. Different situations for different climates.
Forgot to mention the fungi. Mushroom pickers commonly flock to areas after forest fire. Burns are well known for being abundant mushroom picking spots.
@@yonmusak How come there is so many mud slides after ground fires good luck growing on soil washed away to the ocean. My point what does a ground fire do for the tree burn the bark into a charred mess. I can see the point burning field of grass for a new year of growth. Having a forest full of burned tree butts is not my cup of tea as I dont think it does the tree any value. Some people collect tree leaves to fertilize there garden instead of burning.
@@EINNHOJ100 I suppose that's why he's conducting controlled burning, and takes into consideration factors like this. He knows what he's doing dude. What do you do in the forests you own? For the forest I own in Europe (mature hardwood with some coppice), wildfire would be a nightmare. Use cases vary.
Green screened
If only I had enough talent to know how to do a green screen.
At 440 in your video your forest is a mess badly needs to pruned and spaced instead of trees been scalded, your trees do as you please.
I’ve came to a conclusion that I think you are a fire bug….😂😂😂😂
Well, that too...
Did it take you this long to come up with that conclusion? 😂
Does burning get rid of the pine beetle 🪲?
A few may get burned up if there is some material on the ground they are in. If a higher intensity fire kills some pine trees, the freshly killed trees can attract them. Reduced competition after a fire can also make the live trees more resistant to the beetles. Fire can be a double edge sword there depending on the intensity.