[pct-l] Burning Deserts

[CMountainDave@xxxxxxx (CMountainDave@xxxxxxx)]

I always wondered why the chaparral consisted of plants that are so
flammable. They are probably as flammable as kerosene. Why I wondered would a
plant evolve to be flammable in a hot and dry climate where the risk of fire
is so great. One would think they would evolve to be flame retardant, much as
the bark of a Jeffery pine.
  Then one day I was walking through a landscape mixed with the usual chap
plants and 2 to 5 year old pine trees and it dawned on me. They are flammable
on purpose. They want to burn because it kills all the plants that would
eventually crowd and shade them out. Fire doesn't kill the chap stuff's roots
and they grow back. The pine trees take much longer to reestablish, and by
then its time for another fire.
 The real question is: How do these plants know that fire is their friend? Oh
I know, the evolutionists say it was random natural selection. But it sure as
hell seems like a thought out strategy to me. To become so flammable in a
near desert environment by chance? Logic says no way. Just as likely to not
be flammable