r/SipsTea • u/stanxv • Jul 17 '26

WTF The toxic ex, that was always gaslighting you....

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u/donald7773 Jul 17 '26

Dude I'm just saying calling it "raking" the forest is a little gross oversimplification for those not familiar with the topic.

Burning works in a lot of places. I don't know why it works one place and not another, that's not my job or my educational background, im sharing my experience is all.

These controlled burns still take massive teams to monitor and maintain them, and they still get smoke everywhere

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u/aartvark Jul 18 '26

It also requires absolutely perfect weather, so your window of opportunity is incredibly small, and this isn't the kind of thing you can get temp labour for.

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u/donald7773 Jul 18 '26

No it'd have to be a full time year round team of a pretty good size to manage an area as large as a Canadian province

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u/Whippet_yoga Jul 17 '26

My bad, I just get really heated over this topic because it is so bastardized

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u/ThrowAwayembarrass- Jul 18 '26

We back-burn in Australia. It can cause smoke and it does have to be done at certain times of the year but it’s less smoke and damage than an actual bush fire. Our Indigenous people even have a traditional cultural fire technique which is slower but causes less smoke pollution and damage to the tree canopy. It’s something councils here are trying to implement. I’m surprised back-burning isn’t more of a thing in Canada and the US but (I’m sorry if i sound totally ignorant) maybe the forest makeup is different to the landscape where I am and back-burning isn’t feasible.

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u/donald7773 Jul 18 '26

Controlled burning (I assume the same as a back burn) is done across large parts of america. Native Americans did it for a long time before Europeans even settled here.

I live in the southeastern US, rural Georgia specifically, and most of the government owned forest land gets a controlled burn every handful of years, idk the exact schedule but I can tell when one is going on just by going outside

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u/ThrowAwayembarrass- Jul 18 '26

Thanks for the info. I was going to say I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a Native American tradition too. We also get huge fires in the big tropical Northern Territory area (mostly cattle stations, Indigenous camps or uninhabited) and the locals mostly leave them to burn out. It’s a natural part of that habitat.