and yet the media wants us to bow down to this forest like it's something wonderful and not simply a useful resource for many purposes that don't mean clearing it

the lack of proper management in almost all cases is the reason for fires

speaking of which, there is wildfires near where i live right now on madeira... and the first thing the search engines want me to see is some shit about how the governor of madeira is WRAWWWNG to not beg Lisbon for expensive resources to fuss over fires that are mostly burning on land soo steep you can't do anything on them

the mainlanders have no idea what an epically sloped landscape this place here is

i mean literally, it's hilarious you see these boundaries for "nature reserves" and if you actualy go and look at the place it's like, 45' angle to horizontal, completely impossible to build on, loads of it big heavy stone that you can't dig up or anything

and i look on the map and it shows me this nice road up the mountain out back of where i am now and it isn't clear from the map... when you see it, it's a forestry road, all gravel and shit, not something you would go up without a 4WD lol

oh yeah, and, at the top of the ridge up there, they planted these windmills, one of them never seems to spin, and i'm pretty sure as a result of their effect on the rainfall, the whole - probably habitable - plateau at the top is mostly dry and dusty... probably a bit windy up there, i have to hike up there sometime, since it literally is just a gravel road, and the mountain is tall and steep, been too flabby to take something like that on until recently, will be on my list of things to do on a weekend sometime soon, with a packed lunch and all that lol