Let us log!
This is criminal negligence on the part of Governors Brown (former) and Newsom. Any lawyers here who could help me understand how to prosecute them?
The Rats seem to have forgotten God’s first command to the first humans.
Key word - Remaining.
The environmentalists drove most lumber industry out of business. There are no people to do the job now.
There’s a call for lightning this coming week in the west. It’s going to get even worse.
“Some California forests have more than 1,000 trees per acre when 40 to 60 trees per acre would be ideal. These overcrowded forests are filled with dead trees, piles of logs, and thickets of small trees.” This is from a 2018 SF Chronicle article. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Why-California-burns-its-forests-have-too-13385872.php
This is a result of 40 years of stopping people from cutting down trees. Where I am, it’s even difficult to cut trees on your own property. You’re allowed two a year regardless of how large your property is - and if you want to cut certain types of trees, you need an arborist’s report. I know someone who recently bought a 10-acre parcel that hasn’t been maintained for the past 50 years. He’s cleared out probably close to a hundred truckloads of poison oak, fallen branches, dead shrubs, etc. Just yesterday, with 3 friends with trucks helping, they probably removed 20 truckloads. But cut a tree and neighbors complain. If you have a quarter-acre lot you can cut two trees; if you have a 10-acre lot, you can cut two trees (without going through a lot of governmental rigamarole).
Yaking on Hannity is a waste of time... preaching to the choir.
Be warned, in the Midwest we have had all the ash trees die in the past two years. Could be a large fire problem if we have a dry fall.
We stopped Harvesting Timber and Clearing dead wood over 30 years ago, we save the Spotted Owl, we Saved Millions of Trees from being turned into Baseball Bats and Houses.
The Vast Majority of all the Negligence has been a result of a Multitude of Lawsuits by the SIERRA CLUB, Out of those cam Crazy One Sided Settlement Agreements with elected officials and EnviroNazi’s, and court judgements by EnviroNazi Judges.
Shouldn’t these ENVIRONAZI Groups and their Members be held Financially Responsible for the Damage they Created??
Enjoy the bed you’ve made you environmental idiots
The fuel loads in the Inland Northwest in remote forests are even higher than that due to the beetle kill and overgrown forests with stressed trees competing for water.
This paper is correct and prescribed burns are the best answer to fix this, but thinning the forests by logging and fields by grazing are also very helpful and it makes the trees much healthier and fires less violent.
Collectively, government(s) at all levels are doing a horrible job of managing the forests and one of the consequences are catastrophic fires.
Here is a good 14 minute explanation from a PhD from the Forest Service that corroborates the obvious. He lives in an area that burns every year and he has 100 year old pictures to compare to what it looks like today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edDZNkm8Mas
He has another presentation that is over an hour that shows how the lack of diversity in our forests and on public lands have contributed to “mega-fires.”
how about people setting fires are causing this like the guy who is big into BLM, antifa and set a fire.
In Rot Ve Trust
Just like Nuisance’s brain and his predecessors, rotting away while we watch..
[North said a majority of the beetle-killed stands are in wilderness or in areas that are too remote and too steep to be logged. ]
2,000 tons per?
25 to 30 tons of wood chips per truckload. Thats around 80 or so truckloads. The paper mill I used to ship to would take 50 truckloads a day to supplement their boiler fuel since their new generation plant couldnt be supplied with the waste from their debarkers.
They produce enough electric power there to power a city of about 200,000 homes.
So do the math.
I have a wood burning stove and I burn virtually anything that is around my and my neighbors houses as far as wood, limbs, trees or anything else. Not that we are at threat of a forest fire where I live but there is much less undergrowth and material to burn.
JoMa