It is not uncommon to hear one say, "You can't fight fire with fire". To people who do not understand why a controlled burn is beneficial and effective, this seems like a perfectly valid argument. The purpose of a controlled burn is to limit the amount of fuel in an area that an actual fire can consume. Wildfires can cost millions of dollars of damage and a controlled burn is a relatively cheap and simple way of preventing such destruction.
A controlled burn helps the environment by preventing larger and more destructive forest fires from developing later. The issue people see with controlled burns are when they become uncontrollable and while this does happen on occasion, it is usually quite simple to eliminate it before it gets out of hand.
A controlled burn helps the environment by preventing larger and more destructive forest fires from developing later. The issue people see with controlled burns are when they become uncontrollable and while this does happen on occasion, it is usually quite simple to eliminate it before it gets out of hand.