Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!
The simplest way to put it is that these fires are the result of amismanaged forest by both the Forest Service and private land owners. There areforest fire mitigation plans, however these plans are just methods onpaper. All of this is a result of overprotection of our natural resources,timber and grass that has grown into a dog hair thicket that cannot becontained. The USFS must go back to allowing multiple use of forest lands toprevent forest fires. Under the disguise of non-profit organizations andsaviors of the environment and endangered species, groups like the Sierra Club,Friends of the Forest Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity havebeen strong advocates against logging, the burning of small natural fires, andgrazing on federally held forest land. Excessive Forest Service regulation,Endangered Species Act regulations, clean water regulations and more, preventthe salvaging of dead trees and cleanup of excess dead vegetation. This hasresulted in a dangerous and large build up of extremely dry dead trees, excessbrush and thick vegetation undergrowth. A ticking time bomb waiting for asingle lightening strike to set it off. Private land owners, with the exceptionof those who implement wildfire mitigation plans for their land, are alsoresponsible for these raging fires because the fail to implement the multiplewildfire mitigation steps. I.e. - they don't cut down the pines around theirhouses, they don't pick up the forest junk just like the USFS. I view this as being selfish because if everyone that lived in the forest or proximity of the forest than firefighters wouldn't have to rick their lives to save structures and they could in turn spend their time doing something better and that it working on containment.
EndFragment
