UNNECESSARY.”40 This hardheaded mentality arises from the same attitude that insists on total fire suppression. In their study of fire regimes in California and Greece, a group of Greek geographers describe a mindset that could just as easily be applied to boulders, floods, or mountain lions: “The general public perceptions are that forest fires should be controlled and not pose a threat to humans and property,”41 they write. “It is interesting to note that what attracts people to live on the forest margins, that is a sense of living in a ‘natural environment,’ is done under the mystique of
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