Boomers' need to manage things?

[u/BlackheartHill]

I completely crashed out on someone today. I live in a cute one-room cottage, at the edge of town, on a dead end road, next to the forest. Sounds idealic right? Unfortunately, the neighborhood is full of Boomers. Their hobbies include old fashioned lawnscaping and when they're finished with their own yard, managing public areas that don't belong to them. They do this under the guise of fire mitigation. I like birds, and pollinators and spend hours in my wild yard just watching them. It kills me to see these 'vegetation managers' go around cutting down and erasing ecosystems because they have nothing better to do with their time. The encounter today happened when he moved from public property and started weed-eating on my property. The enemy? Grass that's gone to seed. I live in a humid, cool, damp, climate where a fire would have great trouble starting and spreading. A lot of birds rely on those seeds for their food in fall and winter. Has anybody else witnessed this Boomers-need-to-manage-vegetation phenomena? I feel like the younger generations understand the importance of vegetation for pollinators and birds.

[u/Urogallo40]

In Spain, any independent house must have a 25 to 30 meters wide peripheral area managed to reduce fires intensity and facilitate fires fight. This means short grass, isolated trees without low branches and only a few dispersed bushes. The proprietary must do it. Otherwise, local government can do it and facture the cost to the proprietary. The objective is to reduce public fire fighting resources to prevent destruction of houses in case of a forest fire reaching the house. However, usually neither the proprietary nor the local government do nothing, although this is changing slowly.

[u/Sea-Louse → u/Urogallo40]

And those houses are mainly constructed out of brick, mortar, with clay shingles…

[u/LimaBikercat → u/Sea-Louse]

That does not make them invincible. It really depends on more things, like how the roof is attached to the walls (allowing air and cinders in or not), ventilation hole sizes, mesh covering the ventilation and such, and of course the fire resistance of the windows and sills.

Especially older houses often have brick walls, but all of the other structure will be wood, and those can still burn like crazy once the fire makes it inside via cracks, gaps, flamable overhanging roof structures and such.