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The destructive nature alone makes fire a poor tool for land management. Completely charring the land as land management is admitting you need to start over after the destruction. Rain defines conditions. Lush vegetation is less likely to burn, even during dry periods. We literally have no wildfire threat in Florida. But if we prefer burning what cools and nurtures life, the eventual outcome will not be good. There is evidence the Sahara Desert was partially caused by repeated prescribed burns by Modern humans within the past 200,000 years using fire as a hunting technique. Fire depletes the soil and raises overall ground temperatures, which highly contributes to desertification. As we watch the populations of the gopher tortoise and the indigo snake plummet, more research is needed. Still, the contention that fire is the cause, correlates with and goes against Florida's massive prescribed burn program. In 2018, Georgia, Florida and Alabama prescribed burns to more than 4 million acres of land, while the remaining 47 states and territories burned about 2 million acres combined,

From: UF/IFAS researchers review alternatives to prescribed burning

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