Good Fires, Fires, and Fire

摘要

Cayden, my 4-year-old grandson, got into some fire ants recently and after I brushed them off and dried his tears, we came to the mutual agreement that we don't like those particular bugs. There are a lot of things innature that we don't care for. Things like horse flies and mosqui-tos. Cogongrass and kudzu. Hurricanes and wildfires. The list goes on and on. We can't do much about bugs. We can poison ant mounds and fog mosquitos, but does it really do any good? I'vesprayed herbicide on cogongrass and kudzu which knocks them back, but to eradicate them is so expensive. Hurricanes and tornados are forces of nature, so dream on about slowing these down. And wildfires? Well, some wildfires are preventable.