Experts Are Studying Past Wildfires To Aid Future Forest Survival

[KenH]

Very interesting.

"Using photos from the past, experts are piecing together wildfire history to look for clues that can be used in the future."

Experts Are Studying Past Wildfires to Aid Forest Survival (VIDEO) (newsy.com)

 

[777]

good, as a Left Coast resident, these wildfires are now happening every single year. It didn't used to be this bad. the air quality being so poor it's risky to go outdoors for more than a couple of minutes. Now the East Coast is getting a taste of it:

Why West Coast Fires Are Producing Smoke & Bad Air On The East Coast - ZubuBrothers

and the states in between. They also just look bad, better forest management is needed. Cut back brush or something.

 

[KenH]

Cut back brush or something.

The Native Americans used to start preventative fires to limit wild fires. Apparently, it is the "no burn" policy of the past hundred years that has led to this problem.

 

[canadyjd]

The Native Americans used to start preventative fires to limit wild fires. Apparently, it is the "no burn" policy of the past hundred years that has led to this problem.

Not a hundred years. I think the modern environmental movement stooped the preventative fires, as well as clearing mile wide fire stops, and clearing underbrush to limit the fuel. That’s happened in the last 40-50 years, I think.

peace to you

 

[Revmitchell]

Very interesting.

"Using photos from the past, experts are piecing together wildfire history to look for clues that can be used in the future."

Experts Are Studying Past Wildfires to Aid Forest Survival (VIDEO) (newsy.com)

why we already know what to do about them. Thin them out.

 

[KenH]

why we already know what to do about them.

Well, I found it interesting.

 

[canadyjd]

I really don’t think it needs to be “studied”. These “experts” should just look at what worked decades ago before the environmentalists ruined everything.

pesce to you

 

[KenH]

These “experts” should just look at what worked decades ago before the environmentalists ruined everything.

That's why they are looking at the old photos.

 

[Centrist]

You don't need old photos. Compare forest fires of the 1970's with the forest fires they have today. Then compare the operations plans from the 1970's to that of today. Simple.

 

[KenH]

You don't need old photos.

The old photos can shed a lot of light on what needs to be changed.

 

[OnlyaSinner]

Many/most of those Western fires are in fire-driven ecosystems, in which frequent ground fires and occasional more intense events work against the monstrous conflagrations we've seen in recent years. Intentional fuel reduction fires are both publicly and politically unpopular in that area (though common in Southern pine management) but carefully planned timber harvests can closely mimic the effects of those historically natural fires.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

Sounds like the secret of how to solve the problem is no secret at all, just unpopular with self-proclaimed environmentalists.

More intriguing is how the Indians (aka Washington Redskins?) came to practice setting forest fires in the fall.

 

[777]

California will spend $500 million to thin its 33 million acres of forests to help prevent wildfires | Daily Mail Online

The Native Americans used to start preventative fires to limit wild fires. Apparently, it is the "no burn" policy of the past hundred years that has led to this problem.

well, I think so too but the left always blames them on climate change and the right usually blames Bill Clinton's policies on it. Many of the recent ones out here were caused by arson, lightening strikes are old school.

 

[Centrist]

So, the state wants to spend $500 million dollars to do what loggers can do (which instead would be profitable for both the state & businesses). I dunno. Something doesn't seem right about this. Because in the end...they'll still have....LOGGERS! doing the same work. I mean, seriously. Something ain't clicking here. Is it just me?