Gary: Lightning strike fires happen all the time. Many of the remote fires that the smoke jumpers go to are caused by lightning. I've fought many fires around the country that started by a bolt from the sky. We would always find the point of origin or tree that got hit from the strike. Nothing worse than a dry lightning storm in an area that has high fire danger conditions.
Tim On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Gary Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > > ENTS and Foresters, > > How often do you see or know of forest fires that can definitely be > attributed to lightning strikes? > > Every season, once in a while, hardly ever? > > Being most interested in the history of the longleaf pine and how it > once dominated great parts of the lower South, I would especially hope > for the Southern lads here to chime in with their experiences. > > Without Indians setting fires, would longleaf still have come to > dominate? > > This question was inspired by Joe Z's question on another thread, but > I wanted to put it as a separate topic. > > Gary Smith > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
