山火真的需要扑灭吗？(中)

Hankins has done research into the indigenous practices before Europeans settled in the area.

汉金斯研究了欧洲人在此定居之前的土著习俗。

Ohlone peoples in, in this region, would've been living in this landscape and using these different resources from the different ecosystems that are there from the wetlands to the grasslands, to the different oak forest and conifer forest and so forth,

欧隆族人本该一直生活在这片土地上，利用来自不同生态系统的这些不同的资源，从湿地到草原，再到不同的橡树林和针叶林等等，

they each have their own timeframes for when fire would be appropriate.

他们每个人都有自己的时间表，会在合适的时候点火。

And Hankins says that they would take a hand in the process of ecosystem management when the timing seemed right.

汉金斯表示，他们会在时机合适时介入生态系统的管理过程。

So, some places, like I said, would, would burn relatively frequently.

如我所言，有些地方会相对频繁地点火。

People would see that, oh, the health of the grass is declining.

人们会看到，哦，草原的环境每况愈下。

We need to burn, or we're getting too much litter accumulation and on the forest floor.

我们需要点火，否则森林的地面上会垃圾成堆。

With this policy in place, people were limited in being able to burn because there were really strict penalties applied to people who, who set fires.

这一政策一下发，人们在自行燃火方面受到了限制，因为那些放火的人会受到非常严格的处罚。

But now we are seeing the folly of fire suppression in big basin and elsewhere.

但现在，在大盆地和其他地区的灭火行为显得十分荒唐。

I talked to Portia Halbert, the chief environmental scientist for Big Basin State Park.

我采访了盆地红杉州立公园的首席环境科学家波西亚·哈尔伯特。

She was there when the fire took off.

火灾发生时她就在现场。

It’s crazy how fast the fire came in.

火势蔓延得真快。

What was the burn of Big Basin like? What was the fire like, that came through?

大盆地燃烧起来是什么样的? 传来的大火是什么样的?

This part of California, the coastal central and Northern California. We have foggy cool summers.

加州沿海中部和北部这片区域，夏季多雾凉爽。

When I go to the beach, I don't wear my swimsuit. I often wear a wool sweater.

去海滩时，我不需要穿泳衣。我经常穿一件羊毛衫。

The day the fire started was unseasonably warm.

大火开始燃烧的那天气温高得反常。

I think it was probably in the, you know, low nineties and it was sunny and it was hot.

我觉得仿佛置身九十度的环境中：阳光明媚，天气炎热。

So that set the stage for a big fire. But how did it actually begin?

这就为一场大火做好了准备。但大火是如何开始的呢?

Part of that led to the conditions that set us up for a dry lightning event. So, we had lightning strikes.

这部分是干雷暴(无雨风暴闪电)事件发生的条件。我们后来遭遇了雷暴。

I think there was something like 11,000 of them that quickly started fires everywhere around the mountains. You could see these massive smoke columns.

我认为大约有1.1万道雷电发生在山区周围，迅速引燃火焰，巨大的烟柱随处可见。

We had a wind pickup out of the Northwest and it took the three fires that were burning all around Big Basin, and it just pushed. It just pushed the fire right through the park.

西北方向吹来的一阵风推动着大盆地周围燃烧的三场大火，让火势穿过整个公园。