Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DesertDrifter]

The dense second-growth plantations of pine that appear to be unthinned and un-managed are like gasoline when dry. They look to have serotinous cones so are thus from a fire-adapted ecosystem. The combination of not managing the fuels and prolonged drought is lethal to most temperate forests unless they are allowed to burn often and lightly so that when they do burn, it will be low intensity and survivable by the mature trees.

Kind of looks to me like they protected their forest to death, which is unusual in that neck of the woods, where overharvest happened and then was over-reacted against in later decades. Sort of like the American West.
https://books.google.com/books?id=G4kUfc5JswAC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=forest+fire+frequency+chile&source=bl&ots=5K6Cn4N0Cs&sig=1EvKu8RP75_FPm8jjaH9zp2jye0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_0vqz9-rRAhUKilQKHRqqAGcQ6AEINTAE#v=onepage&q=forest%20fire%20frequency%20chile&f=false