Wildfires ravage 3.2 million acres in 2017, and it’s only July

Free Range Report ^ | July 7, 2017 | Marjorie Haun

[Twotone]

Earlier this year Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and other Midwestern states suffered catastrophic damage to range lands, property, homes and thousands of animals from massive wildfires. The ranchers, farmers and small communities impacted by these fires are still struggling to recover, and losses continue to add up. At least 6 people died, and thousands of cattle were killed by the fires that covered nearly 2 million acres.

[Twotone]

Some scary pictures at this site.

[Dilbert San Diego]

During a 2011 fundraising dinner, Obama took a swipe at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, saying Texans have “a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change.”

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I mention this, just to note, that the liberals blame every event on global warming/climate change.

During that terrible fire season in Texas, Obama had no sympathy for the victims of the fires. Instead, he with his pinheaded liberal sanctimonious snark, couldn’t resist blaming the fires on global warming, and implying that it could be expected in Texas, having a governor who didn’t believe in global warming.

So the stage is set. Any bad event, fires, or hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, whatever it is, will be blamed on Trump pulling us out of the Paris agreement. The media in the New York/Washington axis have their templates all set up. Whatever happens, they will blame it on global warming and the fact that Trump pulled us out of that ill conceived Paris deal.

[george76]

Leftie arsonists start fires.

Sierra Club and other environmentalists may be sued for preventing - fuel reduction efforts.

Utah officials blame lack of logging for major wildfire.

Insisting that logging could have cleaned up dead, bug-infested trees that are fueling a Utah wildfire, a Republican state lawmaker blamed federal mismanagement and lawsuits by “tree hugger” environmentalists for the blaze that has burned 13 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,500 people.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Back in 1956-1958, lots of Smokey the Bear public announcements were on TV warning of wildfires in the USA.
It was proclaimed that EACH YEAR wildfires in the USA (no Alaska or Hawaii states then) burned off enough range and forests to cover the entire state of Louisiana. That is 50,000 square miles, or 32,000,000 acres.

We still got a long way to go to beat 1956’s record, and back then we had better forest management than now.

[DennisR]

I believe most of these fires are caused by lightning. How can that be caused by man?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Every wildfire season, I remember a California airship company that had the brilliant idea to make a firefighting airship. Unfortunately they went bust before they could build a prototype.

It would not replace aircraft or helicopters, but complement them with some unusual abilities. First of all, they can carry a LOT of water. And they don’t have to dump it all at once, but can “rain out” a fire, or moisten a large area in its path to significantly slow it down. They could also descend a wire guided fire hose, or even generate enormous amounts of high expansion foam, giant globs of which would smother parts of a fire.

The airship would need compressors because of the great difference in weight between having an empty and full tank. But it could very quickly refill its tank by setting down on a lake or open water tank. It would have engines like on the Goodyear blimp, that could rotate down to help with liftoff.

Such an airship might cost $20m, but prevent hundreds of millions of dollars in fire damage every year.