Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On 7/31/2026 6:44 PM, Creon wrote:
> At Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:20:28 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/31/2026 2:06 PM, Tara wrote:
>>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 12:40:32 PM EDT, "Wilson"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/30/2026 3:50 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>>> Julian <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:56, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:53:09 PM EDT, "Julian"
>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:29, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:04:17 PM EDT, "Julian"
>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Sadly he was proved right. So was I. After I warned in these
>>>>>>>>>> very pages last year that government policy was worsening
>>>>>>>>>> the fire risk on moorland, it gives me no pleasure to say:
>>>>>>>>>> ‘I told you so.’
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Matt Ridley
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Indigenous peoples in North America have been conrolling the
>>>>>>>>> threat of wild fires with prescribed/controlled burns for
>>>>>>>>> centuries. Canada is looking to do the same in co-operation
>>>>>>>>> with our native people. We have a problem doing this however
>>>>>>>>> because of the acessibility and vastness of our forests. But
>>>>>>>>> in a country the size of Britain (and other European
>>>>>>>>> countries), it seems to me that controlled fires are a no
>>>>>>>>> brainer.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are inaccessible fires in vast forests really a problem?
>>>>>>>> I think they're as likely good for the land's long term health.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is that, but an uncontrolled fire can massively grow and
>>>>>>> send a lot of smoke to people populated areas.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A bit like a volcano.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah like that.
>>>>
>>>> The northeast US is hundreds of miles from the wildfires yet we've
>>>> had serious air quality warnings this year and last. A few weeks
>>>> ago it literally dimmed the sun for several days, making what was
>>>> otherwise a clear day look cloudy.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-smoke-millions-exposed-midwest-northeast-us/
>>>>
>>>> Those pictures are not an exaggeration. That's what it really
>>>> looked like.
>>>>
>>>> Meanwhile the idiot treehuggers think they know what's best.
>>>
>>> I am an admitted tree hugger but I am also a realist and think that
>>> one answer here is controlled burning. Another is education and
>>> strictly enforced laws against those who are careless and start
>>> fires through laziness and ignorance, clearing vegetation around
>>> and near dwellings and building fire resistent homes.
>>
>> Yes I agree. The funny thing is, the idiot treehuggers I'm talking
>> about are killing more trees by not allowing beneficial things like
>> controlled burns.
> 
> Not true.
> 
> You seem to be living about four decades behind, Sir.

Because you say so?

Who's stopping the controlled burns and brush clearing in California? 
It's not the foresters.