Posted on 10/15/2020 6:22:07 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Thousands of small fires were already burning in the American West when the winds picked up.
On Aug. 20, 1910, the gusts hit like a freight train. Dry timber crashed and homes shook. And then the flames came cresting over the hills toward the town of Wallace, Idaho.
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Sorry Gavin this fire was much bigger and happened 110 years ago. You still going to blame the current California fires on climate change?
Does this mean there were wildfires before the last several years? Jeez, I never knew that. The next thing they are going to be saying is before the evil white men showed up to North America that there were wildfires that covered vast stretches of land. Poppycock I say, poppycock!
I have just started reading The Big Burn, by Timothy Egan, about the fires of 1910. Pretty good so far.
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That's exactly what I was imagining when writing the previous post. Further imagine herds of Bison, antelope and other critters the size of half the state of Kansas fleeing from the wildfires. Must have been really scary to the Injuns.
This loathsome, currently omnipotent fool is just teeing-up the “next pandemic”: “Climate change” that I think he is convinced will be the “thing” that will get him the Democrat/Communist/Left Party’s nomination in 2024. The boy really loves himself and it’s clear he enjoys exercising his unchallenged self-anointed power over 40,000,000 Californians no matter the level of harm, pain and death his ongoing deliberate actions have caused.
Can we finally realize that any headline, book title, etc. that refers to something that “Changed America Forever” is blowing smoke?
Yeah, about as much proof as a light in the night sky being a spaceship from outer space.
Finally some truth out of Govenot Gruesome.
I don’t know what is,” Newsom said
I’ve read before that some of those prairie fires were deliberately set by the Indians to burn off unwanted grasses so they could plant grasses that attracted more of the game they preferred to hunt and eat.
Has anyone ever condemned Crazy Horse, in 1876, for setting large tracts of plains and forest on fire to slow down General Crook’s pursuit of him? Even the coal fields were found to be on fire.
I wouldn’t doubt that. Any people living off the land for thousands of years develop methods to feed themselves.
Remembering back to 1956, when we first got TV, there were constant Smoky Bear public service announcements on how there were so many wild fires in the USA that if put together they would “cover the state of Louisiana!”
That would be 33.522 million acres burned in 1956.
8.8 million acres burned in 2018.
4.7 million acres were burned in 2019.
The 4.1 million acres burned in 2020, so far.
Yet the last few years all blazes have been blamed on Glo-Bull Warming or Climate Change!
“Protect your forests from fire,” they pleaded in an editorial. “The forests belong to you.”
That does not mean abandoning them to nature. It means managing them as if they are a farm, a farm of trees, that needs tending, cutting out the dead, thinning the underbrush, and even thinning what is good and growing. Left untouched by human interference, conditions of the forests plus the weather plus just some lighting will cause fires. Then nature, in the form of a fire, starts doing the pruning and thinning that the humans neglected.
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THE BIG BURN is a good read. MEGAFIRE by Michael Kodas explains why wilf fires are different at the end of the 20th century.
In my travel through the more ancient western civilizations of England and Ireland, I was impressed by how deeply into the forests the growth was "manicured" where they abutted towns and roads.
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