The BHNF uses plenty of select tree harvesting and plenty-o-proscribed burns, especially in the NF - rural residence interfaces.
Didn’t stop the Custer State Park fire last year though.
Reform what currently passes for “Science”.
Why don’t we develop these forests then. There’s too much (Federal) land just sitting there getting wasted. Develop the mofos and build new cities. That’s why there’s always forest fires in CA. Too much land in state and federal parks, land where humans are forbidden to go. But OK for illegals to grow pot.
There was a huge fire in Yellowstone NP in 1988. Was just there last month. Our guide told us that the massive fire was caused by the annual small fires being extinguished. Now they let the fires burn naturally.
WUI is the main problem. It just keeps EXpanding. They are voters - and usually influential.
Then there’s lib tree-huggers fighting against Rx burns. TNC, for example.
Not to mention NEPA and EIS - crap like that.
“You just DID mention ‘em.”
Yeah, I know.
Its called forest management and logging is a massive part of it. the environazis of CA have all but destroyed our logging industries. CA is reaping what it has sowed over the last few decades.
Consider political demographics in areas of mismanagement, and just let it go.
Philosophy masquerading as Science
Guess Popular Science is wrong. So shocked. /s
Archaeologist says fire, not corn, key to prehistoric survival in arid Southwest.
Conventional wisdom holds that prehistoric villagers planted corn, and lots of it, to survive the dry and hostile conditions of the American Southwest.
But University of Cincinnati archaeology professor Alan Sullivan is challenging that long-standing idea, arguing instead that people routinely burned the understory of forests to grow wild crops 1,000 years ago.
Like a detective, Sullivan has pieced together clues firsthand and from scientific analysis to make a persuasive argument that people used fire to promote the growth of edible leaves, seeds and nuts of plants such as amaranth and chenopodium, wild relatives of quinoa. These plants are called “ruderals,” which are the first to grow in a forest disturbed by fire or clear-cutting.
So if prehistoric people were not growing corn, what were they eating? Sullivan found clues around his excavation sites that people set fires big enough to burn away the understory of grasses and weeds but small enough not to harm the pinyon and juniper trees, important sources of calorie-rich nuts and berries.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171127152055.htm