Is this true? Strip Mining Prevents Forest Fires.

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Strip mining removes the top few inches of soil over a track several feet wide and miles long. Typically the %26quot;Shovel%26quot; turns around a strips another row right next to the first again and again. Not a blade of grass is left. I guess Smokey the Bear could take the day off.

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Agreed

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• I thought you said %26quot;Strip Miming%26quot; and I couldn%26#039;t see how Marcel Marceau taking off his clothes while facing into an imaginary wind would prevent forest fires so I thought it was a silly question. But then I saw you said %26quot;mining%26quot; and got the true the point of the question. Happily, I was right either way.
  
  Paradoxically, what 100 years of forest fire suppression have taught us is that nothing prevents forest fires like forest fires.
• possibly
• Absolutely....bare earth rarely burns.
• No, modern strip mining exposes coal seams to the air. Once exposed, the coal may be ignited by lightning. Some coals may self-ignite at temperatures as low as 104°F in the right conditions of moisture and grain size. A smoldering coal fire may spread along its seam, igniting fires in other areas. Coal fires may smolder for hundreds and thousands of years.
• no forest, no forest fire dedede!
• Maybe.