To: forester; Stoat
Why fight a fire when you can get paid overtime to stand and watch?
3 posted on
05/10/2004 11:24:21 PM PDT by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly stupid.)
To: Carry_Okie
Time to repost an oldie but a goody, lest we forget who's principally responsible for this mess.
Sierra Club Conservation Policies
Fire Management on Public Lands - Conservation Policies
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Fire Management on Public Lands
- Fire is a natural, integral, and valuable component of many ecosystems. Fire management must be a part of the management of public lands. Areas managed for their natural values often benefit from recurring wildfires and may be harmed by a policy of fire suppression. Long-term suppression of small wildfires may build up conditions making occasional catastrophic conflagrations inevitable.
- Every fire should be monitored. Naturally occurring fires should be allowed to burn in areas where periodic burns are considered beneficial and where they can be expected to burn out before becoming catastrophic. Human-caused fires in such areas should be allowed to burn or be controlled on a case-by-case basis.
- In areas where fire would pose an unreasonable threat to property, human life or important biological communities, efforts should be made to reduce dangerous fuel accumulations through a program of planned ignitions. New human developments should be discouraged in areas of high fire risk.
- When fires do occur that pose an unacceptable threat to property or human life, prompt efforts should be undertaken of fire control.
- In areas included in or proposed for the National Wilderness Preservation System, fires should be managed primarily by the forces of nature. Minimal exceptions to this provision may occur where these areas contain ecosystems altered by previous fire suppression, or where they are too small or too close to human habitation to permit the ideal of natural fire regimes. Limited planned ignitions should be a management option only in those areas where there are dangerous fuel accumulations, with a resultant threat of catastrophic fires, or where they are needed to restore the natural ecosystem.
- Land managers should prepare comprehensive fire management plans. These plans should consider the role of natural fire, balancing the ecological benefits of wildfire against its potential threats to natural resources, to watersheds, and to significant scenic and recreational values of wildlands.
- Methods used to control or prevent fires are often more damaging to the land than fire. Fire control plans must implement minimum-impact fire suppression techniques appropriate to the specific area.
- Steps should be taken to rehabilitate damage caused by fighting fires. Land managers should rely on natural revegetation in parks, designated or proposed wilderness areas, and other protected lands. Where artificial revegetation is needed, a mixture of appropriate native species suited to the site should be used.
- The occurrence of a fire does not justify salvage logging or road building in areas that are otherwise inappropriate for timber harvesting. Salvage logging is not permitted in designated wilderness areas or National Park System units.
Adopted by the Board of Directors, March 17-19, 1989 Up to Top |
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5 posted on
05/10/2004 11:31:28 PM PDT by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly stupid.)
To: Carry_Okie
Why risk your life for a burning tree in an aging fleet of crap-ass planes? Wildland firefighters do not get paid anything to risk their lives for a whole bunch of ingrates that hold contempt for the job.
15 posted on
05/11/2004 12:16:31 AM PDT by
Porterville
(Kerry has no gravitas!!!)
To: Carry_Okie
Didnt the Russians just develope a humongous air tanker that we were thinking of buying some time ago?
25 posted on
05/11/2004 5:48:44 AM PDT by
Husker24
To: Carry_Okie
When we smell smoke, others smell money.
37 posted on
05/11/2004 10:20:37 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: Carry_Okie
Look, the smoke is forming dollar signs in the sky.
38 posted on
05/11/2004 10:21:39 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: Carry_Okie
This is not a good developement. Many roads in our area were not repaired after the New Years day flood of 1997, so many have been decommisioned via lack of maintenance. Recent snowpack measurements show our area has 60-70% of average, not a drought, but combined with the early spring that we have had, could prove to be a bad combination.
Other areas of the west are in far worse shape...
56 posted on
05/12/2004 8:19:56 PM PDT by
forester
( An economy that is overburdened by government eventually results in collapse)
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