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Posted: 02 Jan 2015

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Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge stubble burning (0990)

Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge stubble burning (0990)
Burning off stubble, northern end of refuge -- the flames are visible in the larger portion of the picture. Though stubble burning would seem to be bad for the environment, I've read that closely managed burning is in fact occassionally encouraged by major nature organizations as a positive alternative to using toxics to clear fields.

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 Clint
Clint
I don't know much about this part of California, but considering what I know about the rest of the state I would guess that occasional burning has been a constant here at least since the start of the Holocene. Based on my reading, this is the case in the prairie and wetlands near me (though here it was probably more of a managed process maintained by native people), and is in fact what's kept these landscapes from becoming forests. The ecology of this region has adapted to and grown to depend on these burns. I wouldn't be surprised if this were also the case at Tule Lake.
9 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
Most of the west has late summer dry lightning storms which were historically a part of that burn cycle.
9 years ago.

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