Posted on 11/14/2018 2:29:15 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
As a child in Southern California, Berleman was deeply afraid of wildfire. But at community college, she learned that Native Americans used fire for thousands of years to manage forests and grasslands and protect their villages. Tribes regularly burned California’s oak woodlands, for instance, to remove underbrush and fight pests. It helped them spot prey more easily, keep weevils out of the acorns they gathered for food, and safeguard their homes from wildfire. In 2009, Berleman transferred to the University of California, Berkeley to study fire ecology. There, she worked on her first prescribed burn. “I instantly fell in love with the ability to use fire in a positive way to accomplish objectives,” she says. She trained as a firefighter so she could put fire to use as a land-management tool.
Two years ago, while she was finishing her doctoral dissertation, she began working part-time at Bouverie. Last fall, she presented her boss with suggestions for using fire to restore overgrown landscapes, both at Bouverie and across the North Bay Area region.
She knew how fire-prone the region is. Still, the big blazes in October caught her by surprise. “I thought I had more time to get work done,” she says.
High winds played a big role in spreading the California wine country’s deadly fires. But Berleman and other fire ecologists believe overgrown grasslands, forests and woodlands contributed as well. “I’m more certain than ever that there’s a lot we can do between now and the next time this happens to make it so that the negative consequences to people are nowhere near as dramatic.”
(Excerpt) Read more at motherjones.com ...
But they say it’s because Republicans caused global warming
It aint rocket science.
Wacko Democrat ideas like letting in untold numbers of immigrants and high taxes, which in turn contribute to skyrocketing real estate prices, which then have people moving into areas that really were not meant to be built up. Mother Jones is not likely to admit something like that though.
Nice find.
Build Jerry Brown’s bullet train. That’ll fix it.
Ooooops. Even Mother Jones agrees with Trump
They don’t cut brush or allow clearing of dead wood
Those "wacko" ideas are coldly calculated to bring them power and money.
They have been working.
OMG!!! YOU CAN’T SAY THINGS LIKE THIS WHILE THE FIRE IS STILL GOING ON! PEOPLE ARE DYING AND NOW THE BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS!!!
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PBS had a program on last night..and had a segment about the Indians in California doing this for hundreds of years.....
Modern medicine has had a similar effect on the human gene pool. Many are alive today who would likely have perished in earlier times from opportunistic disease. “Survival of the fittest” demands the herd be culled.
Never stop the lie.
Maybe they should think of it as a firebreak.
“Build Jerry Brown’s bullet train. That’ll fix it.”
This isn’t any different than the Yellowstone fires in 1988 and the policy to put out every fire immediately is just as big a factor now as then.
controlled logging is the answer. We didn’t used to have such devastating fires because the logging companies managed the forests and kept them thinned out.
The article mentioned the spotted owl. I remember environmentalists used the spotted owl to stop logging some years ago. Now if one of these mega fires burn, the entire forest is burnt to the ground.
Every time one of these fires makes it into the National Forest the run like....... wildfire.
Much fuel, rugged terrain.
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