text:  before settlers colonized the country for thousands of years. And that all had to do with fire. And we also know that forests burned relatively low intensity. And in much of the country, they would burn relatively regularly, too. So we've had basically a century that severed that relationship, that cut it off, that meant that many forests that would burn, you know, say between every 10 and 30 years, haven't experienced fire in 100. And that means that they're loaded with fuel, ready to burn. And that's