You guys know alabama natural history better than I do, but how likely was "natural" fire really a dominating cause on the landscape?

itThe research Ive seen has always emphasized human atrributed fires as being the overwhelming source.

One of my pet peaves is the reference to the "natural system" as somehow being from the pin point of settlers establishing homesteads. That leaves out that natives had been largely removed from the landscape for 200+ years. The large Mississipian Culture and peoples probably had a pretty big impact on fire regimes.

Skinny probably knows the population #s and impacts on natural communities.