why we can’t ‘just’ split big forests into multiple blocks so when a block burns it doesn’t spread through the whole forest.

Question

Well the title is the question.
With ‘split’ I mean create some space between blocks where fire has nothing to travel to the next block to spread.

I imagine that actions like dropping water with helicopters would also be unnecessary since we could ‘give up’ a burning block and then the fire would be over.

Or am I too naive about it?

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

If you walk through a forest for an hour and realize that you’ve seen a few acres out of 100’s of millions, you’ll begin to see how impossible it would be to even manage a single National Forest much less a state like California or Idaho. Besides, burn is necessary for forests. We just happen to place ourselves in danger.