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In California, we have Tumbleweed, and it's actually really useful for stabilizing/fertilizing loose, disturbed soils and making shelter for native grasses and plants to start growing near. They also love to fuck with cars by jumping out in front of them at every opportunity.
In California they are a danger to the environment. They can spread fires quicker and spread it to different areas. No bueno.
The California Invasive Plant Council found that Tumbleweeds had no meaningful impact on wildfire risk one way or the other.
Of course a council full of invasive plants would say that
😂
Link?
While waving a flaming Deku stick around probably isn't safe I don't think you can blame California's wildfires on a pointy-eared kid with a floppy hat.
https://www.cal-ipc.org/plants/paf/salsola-tragus-plant-assessment-form/
My friend your paper states
Direct quote from the same item:
In other words, it doesn't meaningfully contribute to the overall ecological fire hazard, you're mostly talking highway veg fires and stuff, which happen with or without tumbleweeds.