Posted on 08/12/2018 5:13:27 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Other National Forests should review the practices of the Black Hills NF wrt logging.
I understand that the two large fires in WA State last year contributed roughly 40% of the total carbon out put of the State last year.
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Check out the Coal Seam fires in China wrt annual CO2 output.
Just marinate on the thought of how many forest creatures are destroyed in a fast moving 700,000 acre wildfire. Kinda puts about half their argument to bed.
This would be an interesting debate to have with the enviro extremists. These fires are adding so much in pollution and greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, yet they oppose efforts to manage forests to make these firestorms less likely to explode as they have this year.
Bring it on. Let’s have the debate.
Yes, it’s ridiculous. I go hiking a fair amount, and the amount of dead trees just lying around the forests all over California is absurd. Then when that stuff goes up in flames, it’s just a massive powder keg. Please thin these forests out!
No one will ask them to pay for their carbon release on that account... tsk tsk... only corporate and individual business is taxed, not the state burning forests, silly us
Many of the fires in California are not forest fires; they are mainly scrub brush (chapparel) wildfires and cannot be prevented by improved logging practices.
The Ferguson fire near and in Yosemite is a forest fire. The forests of the Sierra can be better managed. Many of the Sierra forests have been hard hit by bark beetles and there are many dead standing trees, especially around Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
Wiki: Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the US state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire, featuring summer-drought-tolerant plants with hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought-deciduous, scrub community of coastal sage scrub, found below the chaparral biome. Chaparral covers 5% of the state of California, and associated Mediterranean shrubland an additional 3.5%. The name comes from the Spanish word for evergreen oak shrubland.
How many square miles of forest and how many houses have to be lost before the environmentalists can connect the dots between forest management and fewer uncontrolled forest fires?
By not clearing brush, thinning trees, and not building fire roads with a plan to quickly contain a forest fire, results in the unnecessary losses in life, in homes, wild animals, pets, and trees.
Of course Democrats NEVER see or acknowledge the flaws in their destructive policies. California has lost 500 square miles of woodland to the ravaging forest fires because of their insane environmentalism.
Just what remedies do the environmentalists have in mind? Nothing. Just let the fire burn itself out like it did 300 years ago.
Randi Spivak, Public Lands Program Director at the Center for Biological Diversity — “For lots of members of Congress, they have timber and mills in their district, so it’s really self serving.”
So serving your constituents is “self serving.” It would seem that Spivak wants every Congresscritter to be beholden to the environmentalists, not to their crumb-seeking, deplorable, bible thumping, gun toting constituents.
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Actually most of the brush burning in these fires is Chamise.
It is a severe danger to fire fighters because their turnout gear gets tangled in it, making travel through it a slow process.
And it is oily and burns hot.
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The purpose of these fires is to drive settlers out.
Those are the dots they connected 40 years ago when the Agenda 21 burn-out maps were prepared.
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Oh, “greasewood”.
How does that stuff not burn hot?
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What we really need to do is force congress to completely end “Motorized Travel Restrictions” in all wild land immediately.
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One of my favorite trails on the San Fran Peninsula is the Chamise Trail connecting Rancho San Antonio to Hidden Villa.
Here is a list of the common plants in Chamise Chapparel and Sage Scrub.
Most of the California chapparel and scrub is very resinous, ignites quickly and burns hot. The Wiki article points out that it is natural for these biomes to burn every 10 to 100 years.
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No, not “greasewood.”
That is mostly found in coastal hills.
It also burns hot, but is easy to work through.
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