When the amount of wildfires is at this level, the idea that they were all created by divine lightning isn’t plausible. Somebody is up to something, and instead of investigating the source of these ‘wildfires’, authorities appear content to blame it on global warming.
Interesting fact though… Before the later part of the 20th century, nobody fought wildfires or forest fires. They didn’t have water bombers or helicopters for dropping crews in to fight them. They just let them burn out naturally, which they always do.
No people back then. Then when people moved West, we did some logging so we did a little bit of forest management.
Now we're all about saving the environment, so we are not really maintaining the forest around us anymore. But we need to chop down trees so we can establish fire breaks.
Instead we're all blaming it on "climate change".
“When the amount of wildfires is at this level..”
At what level (i.e., what’s your point of reference)?
Actually, they were very aggressive on fire after the 1910 fire. The Forest Service had a longstanding policy that any fire was to be out by 10 AM the next day. This is part of what has caused our current problem. The fuel load is insane now. Look at almost any area of the country and compare pictures from 1970 and earlier and you will see that the amount of vegetation today is ridiculous compared to 50-100 years ago.
Over the last 10 or 15 years the Forest Service has eased up, allowing some areas to burn and being less aggressive at night.
The last 2 years here in CA, they have been aggressive again, but still not fighting heavily at night.
Some of the problem in Forest Service land is there are not many roads due to Clinton’s roadless initiative. Add to that, no dozers, aircraft, or retardant in many forests, only hand crews, and these things can get away from us. Also, we cannot push a dozer line or hand line within 300 feet of any body of water, to include rivers, creeks, and streams.