Hmmmm.
But Dan, did the Native Americans periodically set fire to their woods so it would be easier to hunt, or so their forests would not burn down so much?
I'll go along with you and bet that it was so that it would be easier for them to hunt. Destructive fire from lightning strikes in heavily overgrown woods was probably not a big destroyer (percentage-wise) of their woods.
Based on how things in this Earth usually go with ever-increasing human population, I'm merely pontificating on human activities being responsible for more than 50% of our forest fires. I'd like to see some solid statistics on human-versus-natural causes of our U.S. forest fires, as I could be completely wrong.
