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Seems like both can be right. Thinning helped in this circumstance. But thinning also might open up the forest to light and allow for the growth of grasses and scrub brush that when built up over a longer period might make the next fire worse. Each situation is different. I don't think there are definitive one-size-fits-all solutions and it is not black and white, but varying shades of gray. What I noticed was the comment "On the night of Aug. 30, as the fire exploded in Meyers and Christmas Valley, firefighters saved hundreds of homes and businesses. No buildings were lost."
I would say they have been scoring repeated goals... they're refining their "legal" injunctivitis skills and where better?Quick Google search and the environmentalists in California are winning....
Challenging Destructive Logging Practices on Federal Land :: Earth Island Institute
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Thinning is necessary to restore forests that are dependent on frequent fire regimes yet have been excluded from fire for 100 years. We are now paying the price for that exclusion with catastrophic wildfire.
the article says "other dirty off road equipment", so I assume they'll eventually get rid of atv/ohv's. How do they expect people to be able to collect fuel for wood fires without a chainsaw? It's just going to create a more dangerous situation in the forest if dead trees are just left out there indefinitely, oh wait, they'll probably "manage" it by prescribed burning. I wonder what that does to the air quality?Article highlights the bipolar mentality of California. Good luck managing the forest there without chainsaws! Unbelievable.
Opinion | California Chainsaw Massacre
Sacramento escalates its campaign to raise costs for everything.
I have been saying for years that thinning the forest is worse for the forest. In Arizona there are some forests that are thinned to balding, harvesting, selling or burning down almost everything except really tall pines. I wondered if the ground is warmer, thus making tree roots warmer. The only managing that the forests need is to continue to allow people to collect wood for fuel. If they take away our chainsaws, collecting wood fuel will come to a halt. What will we power our chainsaws with? Electricity from our electric cars or our electric generators? The earth in Arizona is definitely hotter without all the shrubs and ground cover? Small trees provide shade to smaller bushes keeping the ground covered in shade and cooler.
Yes, but I think the point he may have been driving at was that monoculture prescriptions are not necessarily the best answer. Esp in terms of wildlife, diversity is important.
Well sure, that is one way to look at it, but restore them to what? What humans think is a "normal" forest. Then you might end up with a single "type" of forest that probably just fits into the thinning schedule of the timber co with the lease. The reality is we have degraded the environment just through our normal activity that there isn't enough of nature for it to be diversified. We try to preserve sections, but most are so small there isn't a lot of diversity in the age and type of forests.
"Normal" frequent fire regime forests were well spaced and open with fire resistant trees like ponderosa pine, and with a good amount of understory grass . Now the they are overstocked drought stressed dead and dieing fire traps.
Examples?
