Wow, the science is often different than what we assume before checking. I still think it’s a good idea to put our forest fires that are close to cities and people’s homes though. But this makes sense. I met an arborist who worked for
https://www.greatervictoriatreeservice.ca/ and he said it’s natural for trees out in the wild to go through a recycling process through forest fires. The first nations used to light forests on fire on purpose to regenerate the land. I hope to see more science put into this in coming years.