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Originally Posted by Trollheart
What is this due to? Is the weather so hot and dry there, even now in the depths of winter? Or is there some human agency at work?
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Global warming and encroaching human population. Pre-endless-urban-sprawl periodic lightning strikes would burn portions of the forests enriching the soil with nutrients like nitrogen. Now people try to contain wild fires while maintaining the ecosystem with controlled burns. But it's not nice to try to fool Mother Nature.