• @[email protected]
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    811 months ago

    The California Invasive Plant Council found that Tumbleweeds had no meaningful impact on wildfire risk one way or the other.

    • @mrbaby
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      811 months ago

      Of course a council full of invasive plants would say that

      • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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        611 months ago

        While waving a flaming Deku stick around probably isn’t safe I don’t think you can blame California’s wildfires on a pointy-eared kid with a floppy hat.

        • @not_that_guy05
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          511 months ago

          My friend your paper states

          Plants may add oxalate leachate to soil, making phosphorous more available and facilitating colonization. Can increase fire hazard, especially along tree rows and fences when dead plants build up.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 months ago

            Direct quote from the same item:

            Increases fire hazard (though may be a hazard primarily to human landscapes).

            In other words, it doesn’t meaningfully contribute to the overall ecological fire hazard, you’re mostly talking highway veg fires and stuff, which happen with or without tumbleweeds.