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00:00Fire has been a powerful part of the North American ecosystem for thousands of years,

00:10even before humans arrived.

00:12Forests and fires have co-evolved for millions of years.

00:15It's only a problem because we want certain things from our forests, we want certain things

00:20from the land.

00:22The first humans to interact with forest fires developed an understanding of how to use it

00:27and manage it.

00:29Native Americans were burning the landscape for active land management.

00:33Fire would create a patchwork of young forests among old forests that actually survived the

00:39fire.

00:40The arrival of European settlers changed this dynamic by disconnecting the land from its

00:44historic native managers and by misunderstanding how these forests functioned with fire.

00:50Once we saw Euro-American settlement take hold and widespread alterations in the forests

00:56where you had the hybrid logging and then the livestock grazing kind of created these

01:01more dense forests then that were historically.

01:06It seemed to be a lack of understanding about the value of fire.

01:09To some degree I'd say a lack of tolerance, of fear.

01:12There was this natural tendency to put them out.

01:17Once Native American fire use was removed, we started losing a lot of those natural fire

01:23cycles that cleared out a lot of the underbrush.

01:28Now we have these overstocked forests that have a lot of fuel in them and they're ready

01:33to burn and Mother Nature's making a correction.

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