These findings refer to recent, post-colonial anthropogenic fires. Pre-colonial antrhopogenic fires would likely tell an entirely different story.

I can always count on you @wildwoods.bsky.social to point out my many errors.

As a climate scientist I acknowledge that climate change affects forest decline. However, I do believe that lack of traditional management plays a far greater role in the health and carbon balance of our forests than climate. We can solve this problem ecologically long before we change the climate!

But the article you share makes no mention of cultural burning, which would have mitigated old-growth forest decline. It states that the "carbon lost to trees dying and decaying outstripped the carbon gained by trees growing to replace them." Yes, mature (tended) trees store more C than young trees!

Let's get real folks. Is this climate crisis or a lack of forest management? How many trees in this photo would have been present 100 years ago. I only see one, meaning that all the younger trees are competing with and limiting the growth of the mature trees around them. Cultural burning is the way!

Yup! More than once. Even papers that claimed to have tested my methods, without contacting me or even actually testing my methods. This is why I'm an Independent Scientist. While still an academic, I'm free of the BS. I'm just applying my science and documenting the results.

Beautiful! Why is the base of the trunk white? Has limewash been applied?