Pretty good article.
When you blame “climate change” for the fires, you relieve yourself of responsibility - you can’t do anything about it and you can always blame the other guy.
Forest companies, like Weyerhauser, only survive if they manage the forests wisely. Therefore they do exactly that.
Radical environmentalists’ attempts to protect certain species and old-growth forests have, in fact, destroyed them.
Private, capitalist companies, as usual, will do a better job.
I live in the heart of Douglas Fir land, SW Oregon, our coastal mountains grow more Douglas Fir trees than anywhere on earth. Moved here from Seattle in 1994, the year of the "spotted owl" legislation. I loved big trees, did not want them cut down but then I learned about the Oregon forests and the way the Fed, state, County and private lands are distinguished.
About a hundred years ago, the feds gave the Oregon coast mountains to the railways, they built the rail line and sold the left over land to the counties. That land is now called ONC land. A promise was made to the counties from the feds that it is to be used for county government, revenue from the timber management would sustain our counties for centuries, except they lied and included it in the spotted owl legislation.
The environmentalists are running Oregon's forest management programs, let them burn, no spray for weeds of any kind once burned, nor cutting of any dead or dying trees ever!! When the fire comes again, the dead trees and huge weed covered land, goes up like an inferno, and threatens private timberland nearby. Private land that is managed, logged, sprayed and replanted. Like a crop, Douglas fir trees are a crop a 40 year crop that is Oregons main resource of our land.
These fires started the day that the IRS gave the 503 (c) status to the Sierra Club.
EVERY SINGLE person who donated as much as 1 dollar to them & Western Watersheds and other enviro groups is guilty of this fire.