Loggers support Trump's claim that wildfires caused by 'poor forest management'

washingtontimes.com ^ | 11/16/2018 | Jennifer Harper

[logi_cal869]

“Citing research from the U.S. Forest Service, the council backs such methods as thinning stressed trees and prescribed burns to reduce wildfires but said “only a small fraction of high-risk acres are being treated.””

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Aptly-cited, no forest management is complete without fire in the equation (prescribed burns). Can’t do it. Fire is part of forest ecology. To ignore that would spell disaster for the health of forests in the long-term; we’re seeing some of that now after a century of putting out fires which should otherwise have burned.

[logi_cal869]

LOL. In my writings I’ve not been kind at all to the “no burn” idiocy. It’s appalling how many people cannot comprehend “fire ecology” yet build houses abutting the wildland with no defensible space and construction ill-suited for the inevitable threat. The satellite view of Paradise in the before shots is rather telling: Too much vegetation and homes situated in too close of proximity. A recipe for disaster repeated in every fire of the type, compounded by weather in respect to Paradise...an obviously tragic result.

It really comes down to stupid-simple chemistry and the fact that nature is still smarter than us silly old humans, but the fact remains that the idiocy is centered principally in the urbanites and their offspring. Sadly, some older Republicans have fallen into this trap of climate change and fires being “bad”; a mind is a terrible thing to waste.

[rktman]

What would the forests do without us humans to keep them in line! 😁

[Paul R.]

It should also be noted that at least in the Midwest, “National Forests” are actually a patchwork of public (National Forest) land and private land. A lot of it is not forested.

[GailA]

For those who can’t access https://ijr.com/loggers-trump-forest-management-ca-fires/

[3boysdad]

Thanks.

[JerseyDvl]

And then they ridicule those who pray for the victims of a mass shooting...because they want your guns. Everything is politicized in the mind of an insane liberal.

[New Jersey Realist]

I learned that the U.S. government owns 57% of the forests in California. I assume the fires are not among those forests. Does anyone have any info on that? I keep arguing with libs on USAToday who say the government owns 90% of the forests and is totally responsible for the mismanagement. I certainly don’t believe that for a minute because what land the gov owns would be national parks, etc., but what I am seeing is the fires are in and around where people live.