Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ...
by bsder on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:55PM
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> The fact that our forestry practices, by artificially arresting a natural part of forest life-cycles, create powderkegs of old, unhealthy, and highly flammable forests is not news. It's been known for decades.
This is 100% true.
Unfortunately, better forestry practices require a LOT more money to be pumped into the departments which manage those forests for manpower. Go take a look at how much manpower and resource it took to clean up even a tiny area around the Grand Canyon.
In addition, climate change is making things like "controlled burns" increasingly dangerous. The number of days you have the conditions to do a controlled burn are getting fewer and fewer.
"Better" forestry practices are not cheap, and nobody wants to spend the money until after their house burns down.
Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ...
by mistrial9 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:25PM
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agree and also over time, like lots of farming, ultimately control was more important that technique, so you get people who win at control, deciding the technique.
This is 100% true.
Unfortunately, better forestry practices require a LOT more money to be pumped into the departments which manage those forests for manpower. Go take a look at how much manpower and resource it took to clean up even a tiny area around the Grand Canyon.
In addition, climate change is making things like "controlled burns" increasingly dangerous. The number of days you have the conditions to do a controlled burn are getting fewer and fewer.
"Better" forestry practices are not cheap, and nobody wants to spend the money until after their house burns down.