Wildfire Attack on Pine and Eucalyptus Plantations in Chile
Wildfire Attack on Pine and Eucalyptus Plantations in Chile: If my source is correct native environmentalists have launched a massive wildfire attack on Pine and Eucalyptus plantations in Chile that have been supplanting native forests and grasslands. There are reports in the newspapers of multiple arson ignitions at once and that much of the wildfires the past several weeks have been fueled in a large part by timber company forests of non-native fire adapted trees. Fire exclusionists in these timber companies have made them a target for wildfire attacks.
Prescribed fire has been excluded in these fire adapted imported forests so the fuel loads have built up to explosive proportions making them ripe for wildfire. The implications for wildfire mitigation and prescribed fire could be extensive, not only for Chile, but for similar situations around the world. I believe that as timber corporations scramble to protect their forests from possible pyro-environmentalist attack, local and global environmental activists such as Greenpeace will focus on the growing threat to global ecosystems. In addition, the top global prescribed fire vegetation specialists are sure find themselves drawn ever deeper into this now simmering controversy, that soon could erupt into a very heated global public debate.
My source N.N. states: “In Chile where I currently live (exactly in the center of these forest fires which took place again in this year – in the Bio-Bio province, Concepcion) most of forest fires occur in the eucalyptus plantations. I believe it happens because of actions by the local Indians of Mapuche. Some believe that Mapuche activists intentionally arson the plantations of the eucalyptus as a measure of their protests and struggle. These two provinces in Chile where the strong forest fires were happened recently and in summer of 2018 ( Bio-Bio and Araucania) – is a hot spot or the main center of the Mapuche struggle in Chile.”
“The Mapuche Indians hate eucalyptus and pine plantations because these invasive forests are growing on the territory previously covered by native forest. The Mapuche are in a struggle for their native forests and some other objectives. It is a real separative war, sometimes with street manifestations, police attacks with tear gas on students, Mapuche and all other people, and so on. We are trying not to be there where it happens but several times passed through gas attack of carabineers. Terrible feeling, a lot of pain to the eyes and breath.”
“I am interested in the Mapuche conflicts with the authority of Chile in the context of native forest conservation and restoration. I am searching a method which will allow us to launch the restoration of native forests from the bank of seeds in a soil or by sprouts on the area covered now by eucalyptus and pines. I suppose that conservation and restoration of native forests here implemented as a governmental program - will reduce the protests activity of Mapuche, their arsons of forests, and by this way - it will stop the forest fires here.”
In my article on Pyro-terrorism I wrote about terrorists taking advantage of the potentially explosive fuel buildups due to decades of fire exclusion in the Western United States and the rest of the world. However, I have up to now not thought much about pyro-environmental national and global wildfire attacks of mass economic destruction. It is my intention to continue to build upon this work in progress as more information comes through our Facebook group Association of Fire Management Activists. All are welcome to join our rapidly going global prescribed fire network. The primary focus of the group is to promote prescribed fire for wildfire mitigation and ecosystem restoration in fire adapted ecosystems worldwide.
Prescribed fire has been excluded in these fire adapted imported forests so the fuel loads have built up to explosive proportions making them ripe for wildfire. The implications for wildfire mitigation and prescribed fire could be extensive, not only for Chile, but for similar situations around the world. I believe that as timber corporations scramble to protect their forests from possible pyro-environmentalist attack, local and global environmental activists such as Greenpeace will focus on the growing threat to global ecosystems. In addition, the top global prescribed fire vegetation specialists are sure find themselves drawn ever deeper into this now simmering controversy, that soon could erupt into a very heated global public debate.
My source N.N. states: “In Chile where I currently live (exactly in the center of these forest fires which took place again in this year – in the Bio-Bio province, Concepcion) most of forest fires occur in the eucalyptus plantations. I believe it happens because of actions by the local Indians of Mapuche. Some believe that Mapuche activists intentionally arson the plantations of the eucalyptus as a measure of their protests and struggle. These two provinces in Chile where the strong forest fires were happened recently and in summer of 2018 ( Bio-Bio and Araucania) – is a hot spot or the main center of the Mapuche struggle in Chile.”
“The Mapuche Indians hate eucalyptus and pine plantations because these invasive forests are growing on the territory previously covered by native forest. The Mapuche are in a struggle for their native forests and some other objectives. It is a real separative war, sometimes with street manifestations, police attacks with tear gas on students, Mapuche and all other people, and so on. We are trying not to be there where it happens but several times passed through gas attack of carabineers. Terrible feeling, a lot of pain to the eyes and breath.”
“I am interested in the Mapuche conflicts with the authority of Chile in the context of native forest conservation and restoration. I am searching a method which will allow us to launch the restoration of native forests from the bank of seeds in a soil or by sprouts on the area covered now by eucalyptus and pines. I suppose that conservation and restoration of native forests here implemented as a governmental program - will reduce the protests activity of Mapuche, their arsons of forests, and by this way - it will stop the forest fires here.”
In my article on Pyro-terrorism I wrote about terrorists taking advantage of the potentially explosive fuel buildups due to decades of fire exclusion in the Western United States and the rest of the world. However, I have up to now not thought much about pyro-environmental national and global wildfire attacks of mass economic destruction. It is my intention to continue to build upon this work in progress as more information comes through our Facebook group Association of Fire Management Activists. All are welcome to join our rapidly going global prescribed fire network. The primary focus of the group is to promote prescribed fire for wildfire mitigation and ecosystem restoration in fire adapted ecosystems worldwide.