In no way am I trying to be insensitive or unsympathetic to the homeowners in California being displaced due to the fires currently burning out West. I'm not. I can't imagine how helpless one must feel to see all they own risk going up in flames.
However, I also think it's a misused term by the media to say these fires are "awful" or "devastating." As far as our environment's concerned these fires are far from devastating. They're actually part of our environment's natural progression to reinvigorate itself. You see, I tend to believe that Mother Nature has a pretty good idea of what she does and does not need to thrive. And, these fires are part of Mother Nature's efforts to clean out the overgrowth and excess that hold her back.
Again, I don't want to see someone lose their home or business, but I also think it's important not to get in Mother Nature's way and in this particular case, this fire is part of the natural progression of our earth to refuel itself. I think we as humans forget how much this land has given us. Sometimes we need to shed the selfish "me-me!" mindset and give a little to recieve something in return. I think this might be one of those situations.
In the South there are organizations out there working to restore the South to its natural habitat in which the Long Leaf Pine thrives. They've done this by burning much of the woodlands in an effort to remove the non-natural trees and brush. The end result has been a revitalised ecological system in which many of the South's natural habitat, long-sense gone, has begun to return. For more read: The Long Leaf Pine - Garden and Gun Magazine, January 4, 2008
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