William Simpson lives alongside more than 100 Wild Horses a herd he credits for saving his home in rural California in 2018 as firefighters battled a 16-day blaze closing in on his property they use these natural fire breaks created by the horses to get Toe to Toe with the fire and they stopped it the grass where the
horses had grazed gave firefighters an edge leaving little for the Flames to feed on it's a mitigation method currently being tested in Spain and Portugal where wildfires erupted amid a brutal summer heat wave they're a small group of horses and bison have been reintroduced and in Canada since 2018 a herd of
goats has come back year over year to help clear land for firefighters in Lethbridge Alberta so instead of a six foot flan you might have a six inch flame so it's just safer it's easier to fight there is science behind the idea researchers found as humans began to dominate the extinction of large or Mega herbivores correlated
to an increase in fire activity but using modern day mammals as mowers experts warn may only help in specific situations there are places where grass fuels are what fuel fire and there are places where it's Woody fuels that fuel fire and if you have an herbivore that eats grass they're not really going to help
reduce fire in a system where the fuel is not grass exactly how the addition of more herbivores would affect the ecosystem is still up for debate for Simpson the value these Wild Horses bring is of yes now his focus is to rewild and relocate them to areas where they would Thrive and benefit the land while maintaining the brush these horses do that naturally they've been doing it for a million years we need to let them go do their job determined to protect the herd that helps protect his home .
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