Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

At Sat, 1 Aug 2026 12:52:40 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

I see that happening all the time.

Hell, we just did some of that up the road to clear out the crap
in a greenspace.

What branch of government is in charge of the USFS?  Who is
in control of the National Forests that cover a good portion
of California?

(Remember Trump with his "rake the forests"?  What's stopping him?)

Get with the program, Wilson -- the Native Americans did a better
job of stewarding the land than you and your ilk.

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