Justabirdwatcher
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I'm kind of surprised nobody here is talking about the potential habitat impacts brought on by moving all the DOI (and potentially FS) fire programs into the new USWFS.
Does anyone here think that a stand-alone organization, focused primarily on wildfire suppression, will even come close to delivering the amount of prescribed fire on the ground that these agencies have in the past? There are literally hundreds of thousands of acres burned under prescription every year by agency fire personnel. Those burns are essential to so many habitats and wildlife that depend on them. Without that prescribed fire, many of those habitats would be completely lost, some forever. Call me a cynic, but I think we're about to see the single largest reduction in acres of wildlife habitat treatment in the history of the U.S.
I sure hope I'm wrong.
Does anyone here think that a stand-alone organization, focused primarily on wildfire suppression, will even come close to delivering the amount of prescribed fire on the ground that these agencies have in the past? There are literally hundreds of thousands of acres burned under prescription every year by agency fire personnel. Those burns are essential to so many habitats and wildlife that depend on them. Without that prescribed fire, many of those habitats would be completely lost, some forever. Call me a cynic, but I think we're about to see the single largest reduction in acres of wildlife habitat treatment in the history of the U.S.
I sure hope I'm wrong.
