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There used to be 20 sheep for every person in NZ. Now the latest statistics from Beef and Lamb NZ show it has fallen to about seven to one, or about 30 million sheep. The sheep-to-person ratio is still higher than Australia's, where there are 74 million sheep to 23.5 million people — a ratio of three to one.Aug 20, 2014

I think russia is pretty good at wildfires as well!
I've no doubt that there are many forest/tiaga fire in Russia, however there is a distinction of note to be made;

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Latitude. The western US is a hot, semi arid environment, whilst Russia is not.
Typical California chaparral

Typical northern california alpine forest @ about 5000ft in elevation. I've hiked and hunted deer on this very section of forest.

The low bushes along the trail are resistant to drought - Toyon berry (bears eat tons of these berries and their shit piles are huge) and manzanita.

That would be a small pile of bear scat. Some piles would nearly fill a average size plastic grocery bag.
Typical Russian Tiaga

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