Yeah, pigs fly. npr good for somethin today.
Special note: CA burned 35k acres in prescribed burns in 2021 by the date of this article.
Want to know how many acres they burned in 2024?
72,000
"priorities" ya know. /s
Because conservatives govern, while liberals rule.
Nice. Useful.
US Forest Service summary of prescribed fire in California for 2024:
“November 20, 2024 — The U.S. Forest Service successfully treated over 325,000 acres for forest health on national forests in California during the 2024 fiscal year. This includes over 72,000 acres of prescribed burning alone. The previous U.S. Forest Service record for prescribed fire was set in 2018 when 63,711 acres were treated. This marks significant progress toward the USFS target of deploying 150,000 acres of beneficial fire in California’s Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of Beneficial Fire.”
https://wildfiretaskforce.org/usfs-completes-record-setting-year-for-prescribed-fire/
Nice report on prescribed fire use nationally which I’d not come across prior:
2021 NATIONAL PRESCRIBED FIRE USE SURVEY REPORT
https://www.prescribedfire.net/pdf/2021-National-Rx-Fire-Use-Report_FINAL.pdf
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A related article not worth a separate post:
THE BURNING SOLUTION: Prescribed Burns Unevenly Applied Across U.S.
(caution as to source and slant in article, but it’s a sign that ‘science’ is waking up to the fact that Florida is not crazy in its zeal to perform prescribed burns)
Our little town is bracketed by thousands of acres of both national and state forests…not parks, forests. We never have wildfires because we have frequent controlled burns to manage underbrush and other combustibles. Of course, we’re Florida, not California….
Florida report on wildfire mitigation (for comparison to the state of California, for the same period cited: 2021):
FLORIDA PARK SERVICE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ANNUAL REPORT
July 2020 – June 2021
California government made huge mistakes.
However, the bigger picture scenario (which neither Democrats nor most FReepers would like to acknowledge) is that there are more people living in that semi-arid, fire prone area than the area can reasonably support long term.
Flame away. :-)
When I returned to Oregon after three plus years in Florida, I found myself looking upward, a lot. There’s nothing taller than a palm tree in Florida. 100-plus foot tall trees are everywhere, here. And it rained in buckets in the summer, where I was. Apples and oranges, as far as fires go.
California stopped maintaining their firebreaks, ostensibly because they interfered with the migration of an endangered mouse.
Sierra Club will not allow forest management.
Because we’re not stupid down South.
The south is just better in many ways
Just don’t ask victor davis Hanson lol
Man he detests us
Someone else commented earlier, but I’d like to word it differently.
The real difference is the politics between the two regions.
one that burns down has only one party, namely Democrats,
the other region that doesn’t burn down has a mix of parties.
Diversity can be a friend.
We don’t have canyons, big wind, or droughts that last for months on end.
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Related:
LA Fires Renew Debate Over Prescribed Burns and Fire Preparedness in California
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4289603/posts?page=1
Because they’re (generally) not governed by idiot leftists.
We have controlled burns in Georgia as well. Timber forests are regularly thinned and there is very little fuel should a fire be started accidentally. Government agencies do not overly-regulate timber-lands and trust those managing the properties to use industry best practices to produce high quality timber and do what is necessary to keep the chance of a rapidly spreading wildfire to a minimum.
Over-regulation and bowing down to the eco-wackos contributed greatly to the CA fires. DEI incompetence did the rest.