Who Needs a Forest Fire? Wildflowers California’s Native people comprised five

California’s Native people comprised five hundred independent tribal groups whose cultural and linguistic multiplicity expressed a sense of incalculable human richness

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Cold Hardy to Less than 15 degrees F Distribution Selected for the garden

Who Needs a Forest Fire? Wildflowers California’s Native people comprised fiveWho needs a forest fire? We do! But not the kind we have now. The first people who live in California did not fight fire. They use it as a tool and tend the forest floor like a garden for thousands of years. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought settlers and miners who killed Native Americans and destroyed forest ecosystems. Stopping all fires and allowing the forest floor to become overcrowded and overgrown led to conditions that were perfect for