Going back to Native Americans in America, controlled burning (later called Prescribed Fire) have saved the west from huge conflagrations. By burning large brush fields and using fire to thin understory brush in the forest, we kept the big boomers…
In a historic forest, gentle fires burned often enough to clear dead wood and small trees from under the big trees. They might flare up in a pile of logs or a patch of thick trees, but would quickly drop…
Roughly 75% of damage stemming from California’s wildfires was a result of “the way we manage lands and develop our landscape,” Scott Stephens, a professor of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday at a conference in…
There is only one way to prevent unmanageable fires, and that is to reduce the one variable that man can control: ground fuel. A fire can’t burn where there is nothing to burn. On the other hand, a four-fold increase…
The company was found responsible for numerous wildfires in the past, including the 2018 Paradise fire that killed 86 people... This preemptive move aims to reduce future wildfires. Shelby Talcott Daily Caller More than 1 million Californians are expected to…
“It’s just a matter of time,” says Amy Head, a Cal Fire battalion chief. “When it happens, we’re looking at dry standing fuel ready to burn, and it could be pretty catastrophic.” Tom Stienstra San Francisco Chronicle Outdoors With 147…
The USFS says since 1994, bark beetles have wiped out over four million acres in the southern Rockies. The trees turn red, then brown, then become fuel for catastrophic fires. Better Wait for a Real Crisis by GREG WALCHER Rob Reiner’s…
In the Weminuche and South San Juan wilderness areas, however, trees have been falling down at a slower pace, but with such frequency the Forest Service can’t keep up with clearing trails with crosscut saws, Robertson said. Durango Herald Jonathan…
The order also calls on federal officials to streamline regulations and permitting processes to allow the harvest of at least 3.8 billion board feet from U.S. Forest Service lands and 600 million board feet from Bureau of Land Management lands.…
Mounting evidence suggest the wildfires were in large part a result of regulatory failure. ProPublica, an investigative outlet based in New York, reviewed records and conducted dozens of interviews concerning one of these deadly fires: the Carr Fire. Its team ultimately…