Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:38:52 +0000, Creon <[email protected]> wrote:

>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.

There you go, a sample of what sanity sounds like.
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