쉐도잉 연습: Why certain naturally occurring wildfires are necessary - Jim Schulz - YouTube로 영어 말하기 배우기

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There was a time before our ancestors smashed flint and steel together, when they felt the cold lack of fire in their lives.
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There was a time before our ancestors smashed flint and steel together, when they felt the cold lack of fire in their lives.
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But anthropologists theorize that early hominids relied on lightning to cause forest fires, from which they could collect coals and burning sticks.
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Fire gave them the ability to cook food and clear land, and became central in many rituals and traditions.
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So instead of seeing forest fires as an exclusively bad thing, ancient humans may have learned to appreciate them.
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Yet, it wasn't just humans who benefitted from these natural phenomena.
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Even as they destroy trees, fires also help the forest themselves, however counterintuitive that seems.
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In fact, several forest species, such as select conifers, need fire to survive.
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But how can fire possibly create life in addition to destroying it?
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The answer lies in the way that certain forests grow.
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In the conifer-rich forests of western North America, lodgepole pines constantly seek the Sun.
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Their seeds prefer to grow on open sunny ground, which pits saplings against each other as each tries to get more light by growing straighter and faster than its neighbors.
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Over time, generations of slender, lofty lodgepoles form an umbrella-like canopy that shades the forest floor below.
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But as the trees' pine cones mature to release their twirling seeds, this signals a problem for the lodgepoles' future.
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Very few of these seeds will germintate in the cool, sunless shade created by their towering parents.
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These trees have adapted to this problem by growing two types of cones.
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There are the regular annual cones that release seeds spontaneously, and another type called serotinous cones, which need an environmental trigger to free their seeds.
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Serotinous cones are produced in thousands, and are like waterproofed time capsules sealed with resinous pitch.
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Many are able to stay undamaged on the tree for decades.
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Cones that fall to the ground can be viable for several years, as well.
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But when temperatures get high enough, the cones pop open.
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Let's see that in action.
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Once it's gotten started, a coniferous forest fire typically spreads something like this.
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Flames ravage the thick understory provided by species like douglas fir, a shade-tolerant tree that's able to thrive under the canopy of lodgepole pines.
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The fire uses these smaller trees as a step ladder to reach the higher canopy of old lodgepole pines.
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That ignites a tremendous crown fire reaching temperatures of up to 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit.
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That's well more than the 115-140 degrees that signal the moment when serotinous seeds can be freed.
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At those temperatures, the cones burst open, releasing millions of seeds, which are carried by the hot air to form new forests.
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After the fire, carbon-rich soils and an open sunlit landscape help lodgepole seeds germinate quickly and sprout in abundance.
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From the death of the old forest comes the birth of the new.
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Fires are also important for the wider ecosystem as a whole.
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Without wildfires to rejuvenate trees, key forest species would disappear, and so would the many creatures that depend on them.
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And if a fire-dependent forest goes too long without burning, that raises the risk of a catastrophic blaze, which could destroy a forest completely, not to mention people's homes and lives.
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That's why forest rangers sometimes intentionally start controlled burns to reduce fuels in order to keep the more dangerous wildfires at bay.
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They may be frightening and destructive forces of nature, but wildfires are also vital to the existence of healthy boreal forest ecosystems.
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By coming to terms with that, we can protect ourselves from their more damaging effects while enabling the forests, like the legendary phoenix, to rise reborn from their own ashes.

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주요 어휘 및 표현

  • wildfire - 산불
  • ecosystem - 생태계
  • conifer - 침엽수
  • serotinous cones - 성숙한 뿌리
  • rehabilitate - 재생하다
  • canopy - 수관
  • germinate - 싹트다
  • carbon-rich soils - 탄소가 풍부한 토양

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