[CedarDave]

The result of eco-nazis pushing bans on timber harvesting makes the Forest Service resort to thinning and reforestation projects to control overgrowth. Burning of debris piles from the thinning is a common way to dispose of this material.

[kiryandil]

“Our bad.” - US Forest Service

[BenLurkin]

You mean...these fires were not caused global warming?

[Lurker]

If a private citizen did this he or she would be looking at prison time, restitution, and huge fines.

Just saying.

L

[dainbramaged]

Someone is supposed to be on fire watch during these burns.

[IYAS9YAS]

One does not simply start prescribed burns in New Mexico in the spring. The US Park Service did that 22 years ago and nearly took out Los Alamos National Labs when their fire quickly spread to the Santa Fe National Forest. Over 400 homes lost in that fire (Cerró Grande). The Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Peak complex has taken out more homes than the Cerro Grande did.

[Valpal1]

But the Hammonds got five years for a backburn that burned only 1 acre of BLM land adjacent to their ranch.

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[4yearlurker]

Nothing to see here folks....move along. The experts at the Forest Service started the fires so we know how to put them out too.

[RinaseaofDs]

Everything the government touches these days turns to sh!t. Same people that built the Hoover dam are NOT the same people engineering planned burns.

[ComputerGuy]

Wouldn’t it be cheaper, and better in the long run, if we paid our donbasses to stay home and just leave things alone?

[Sequoyah101]

100 percent focused eh debbie?

Hope it is a hell of a lot more focused than you were when you started the fires in a gale.

Idiots.

When do they pay?

[AZJeep]

When I was young, I worked on forest management. We did a lot of thinning and burning.
Standard practice.
But it never got out of control!
Those people are idiots! (Government!)

[VanShuyten]

“pile burn holdover from January”

So they burned a big pile of wood and didn’t go back to put out the embers? Smokey would disembowel any camper who did that.

[Redcitizen]

It’s the US Fire Service. They’ve caused more Wild fires than Nature at least this summer.

[Liberty Valance]

Reminds me of the Gold King Mine spill in Colorado back in 2015,which also affected Northern New Mexico ... Yep, the EPA

“The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, when Environmental Protection Agency personnel, along with workers for Environmental Restoration LLC, caused the release of toxic waste water into the Animas River watershed.”