The Fire

When a little boy leaves the door, the door became wrinkled, but it was quickly closed by a sticky wind, and the sound rang in the mountains. And I interrupted the pigeon who lived near the forest. The moon illuminates the night sky, and opalescent light illuminates all the lands, making huge and disturbing shadows. The trees are tilted towards the wind, polishing the branches along the ground, causing dust to splash. I can hardly describe this detached house as a house standing alone on the hillside.

Pine's book "American Fire: Wild and Rural Fire Cultural History" (1982) provides a comprehensive overview of the changing ideas about landfire and the efforts to control it. Starting with the natural history of lightning, we talk about how indigenous people and European settlers use fire to clean the land and explore the expansion of the role of fire in the industrial society. In 1910, a huge wildfire burned Idaho State and Montana State, and after the death of 87 people fire fighting became a problem. However, as we have been doing firefighting activities in public land for decades, we have been able to sow seeds with plenty of bushes growing due to large wildfire fires.

Wildfire has two basic reasons. One is nature (lightning) and the other is human. Managed burns have a long history of field management. Prior to agriculture, society used fire to regulate the lives of animals and plants. The Fire History Study records periodic forest fires caused by indigenous people in North America and Australia. The occurrence of spontaneous fire was once part of the natural landscape of many areas. For example, during the last few decades (1994-2004) between the mid-Holocene and the 17th century, it is shown that the annual burn area of ​​California wasteland is 45.0% to 87.5%. These practices ended in the early 20th century when US fire policy was enacted with the aim of suppressing all fires. Since 1995, the US Forest Department has gradually incorporated incineration measures into its forest management policy.