[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

...nobody is questioning the need for prescribed burns, which have proven to be an effective ecological tool.

Well, maybe "nobody" SHOULD be questioning the need for presribed burns. I find their pattern of controlled burns getting out of control pretty disturbing. In most cases, the cause of the out-of-control fire is sheer incompetence.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Dave Harmon, engine boss for the U.S. Forest Service, studies the Cascade
Springs II fire, west of Deer Creek Reservoir, on Sept. 25.
(Al Hartmann/Salt Lake Tribune file photo)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Ping!!

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

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[B4Ranch]

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[forester]

To state officials, the most troubling aspect of the Cascade Springs II fire is why Forest Service crews set fire to a 400-acre parcel outside the original 600-acre boundaries.

The Forest Service's own post-fire investigation concluded that the "primary cause" of the wildfire was the decision to ignite that 400-acre parcel

As a former seasonal (7 years) USFS fire fighter, this is to be expected from an agency that promotes people based on race, gender and ideology instead of ability. That is why these folks look at 90 years of fuel build-up and think that throwing a match into it is better then people "managing the forest." Notice that they called it a wildfire when they lost control. The only thing wild about stuff like this is:... hardly anyone ever finds out about it.

[editor-surveyor]

"The Forest Service's own post-fire investigation concluded that the 'primary cause' of the wildfire was the decision to ignite that 400-acre parcel."

Interesting, let's read on...

"Well, maybe 'nobody' SHOULD be questioning the need for presribed burns. I find their pattern of controlled burns getting out of control pretty disturbing. In most cases, the cause of the out-of-control fire is sheer incompetence."

Is your mind open to another suggestion?

The Forest Service is over-run with pagan environmentalists, and they have an agenda so dark that they make Stalin and Hitler seem like choir boys. This is all far beyond accidents, and coincidences, and the well known incompetetence of the fed gov cannot explain recent events.

Having watched the behavior of the supervisory personnel during the lightening-started fires in Tuolumne county last summer, I have come to the realization that there is a policy in place (at what level I do not know) to allow fires to get a head start before they begin to fight them.

If you'll recall, that is what allowed the Biscuit fire to eventually burn almost 1/4 of the forests in central Oregon.

[SierraWasp]

Thank you for starting this thread! It's turning into a classic, IMHO!!!