Wildfire management LTTE

[BuzzH]

Homeowners that did fuel reduction work on their properties, saved their homes. Those that didn't, lost them. The forest service had plans to do fuel reduction treatments adjacent to the WUI, but litigation stopped that work from taking place. I saw this fire take off from across the valley in real time. The only managing you could do was prior to ignition by reducing the fuel load, that was substantial.

That's always been the case, but you can't force a private landowner to do fuel reduction work.

 

[BigHornRam]

That's always been the case, but you can't force a private landowner to do fuel reduction work.

So you are saying fuel reduction works when properly implemented. We are in agreement here.

 

[Irrelevant]

So you are saying fuel reduction works when properly implemented. We are in agreement here.

I'd always been appreciative that in my neck of the woods NGO's haven't been road blocks to forest treatment projects. That appears to have changed

Lawsuit seeks to halt U.S. Forest Service’s Mission Restoration Project

Three conservation groups have sued the U.S. Forest Service over the Midnight Restoration Project, which plans logging and thinning on 53,009 acres in the Twisp River drainage. The lawsuit by the…

methowvalleynews.com

 

[BuzzH]

So you are saying fuel reduction works when properly implemented. We are in agreement here.

Sometimes, but conditions matter and so does climate change. Things that worked in the past may not work in todays climate conditions.