Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Colorado battles a record-breaking wildfire - BBC News" video.

  1. Fires existed of enormous volume before humans arrived in the Western Hemisphere. Since 1997, the U.S. growth of trees “exceeded harvest by 42%” and we were growing forests at a rate of roughly four times faster than we were in 1920. https://www.tentree.com/blogs/posts/fact-check-are-there-really-more-trees-today-than-100-years-ago#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20has%20been%20been,had%20in%20the%20year%201600.&text=The%20total%20tree%20gains%20have,in%20the%20last%2070%20years.
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