Lamont and He (2020) offer an argument—in terms of genre, perhaps an appeal—to colleagues in ecology and evolutionary biology to consider fire as a disturbance of fundamental relevance to their discipline. They make their case by a systematic review of questions that, by consensus, those colleagues regard as significant to the topic. I’m not among those colleagues. I’m a fire guy and historian, who has written textbooks on fire and fire histories for at least parts of all the vegetated continents. From that experience, here I offer three observations that I hope will encourage further consideration of the main argument.
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