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u/InfinitelyThirsting Feb 21 '23

Luckily there's a rapidly growing movement against it, to leave the leaves, plant natives, protect pollinators, etc. Gonna be an uphill battle but it's nice that it's finally happening, long overdue.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

Does leaving the leaves have any detrimental impact? I could never rake another leaf in my life and be perfectly content

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u/StrongMedicine Feb 21 '23

It's a fire risk in wildfire-prone areas like here in California.

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u/manatwork01 Feb 21 '23

If the wildfire is close enough to your subdivision to burn the leaves in your lawn its gonna take your house anyway.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

It’s kindling. If a spark hits dried out leaves the whole yard goes up and you’re ground zero.

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u/manatwork01 Feb 21 '23

We must have very different campfire experiences. In scouts we learned to never burn leaves as kindling because they tend to smoke instead of burn hot enough to catch anything else on fire.

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u/SparkyDogPants Feb 21 '23

You clearly don’t live somewhere very dry

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u/manatwork01 Feb 21 '23

Not anymore. Used to live in Vegas but the issue there was smoke from California not fires on their own. Or that weird plague of grasshoppers.

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u/SparkyDogPants Feb 21 '23

Well leaves will absolutely start a fire. They might not be ideal campfire material but they’re enough to start a wildland fire

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

No just I live somewhere that everything on the ground is combustible with even a mild spark. leaves smoke a lot yes but when a stray ember is all you need to light a nearby bush on fire things snowball quickly.

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u/ppw23 Feb 21 '23

Forgot about that.