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Originally Posted by Drewski Canuck
The early pictures of Banff and Jasper National Park show NO TREES. There was a big fire in the 1890's that pretty much burned everything to Grande Prairie and north.
The reason the Settlers came out of the trees onto the Northern Prairie was that the fire was so hot it burned all the conifer cones and destroyed the root systems of everything else leaving grass for 100's of miles.
Now if the forest areas had been harvested in a block pattern to reduce the amount of continuous mature trees, there would have been that much less to burn out of control.
Drewski
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Neighbor down the road lived till he was 92 (last year). Born and raised here. Looking west towards Limestone he said there were very few trees out there when he was a kid.
Logging blocks in this area are layed out to mimic fires. Very useful tool for fire control