Posted on 09/22/2020 8:11:48 AM PDT by fireman15
In all the areas with fires find out their history of forest management.
The only thing unusual here in Washington is that we got some strong extremely dry easterly winds caused by a cold front in Canada. These winds dried out the growth from the slightly wetter and cooler than normal winter, and spring and created a dangerous situation and created a window of opportunity for malcontents.
I do kind of hate it that most of these experts are basically forced to acknowledge the existance of “global warming” when writing articles like this one, if they still want to have a job the next week.
Yea, right. Antifa firebug caught setting two fires in my area off I-5. Actually made local news. And the lightening storms are not to be taken lightly around here. The rumble actually shakes the bed and lasts over 3 seconds.
And don’t be fooled by the picture of a long road with several back-fires set to control an oncoming blaze. Somewhere there is a list of a dozen or more perps caught setting fires around the same time.
Warm temperatures DO NOT MEAN “Man is changing the Climate”!!!!!
HUMAN-CAUSED Global Warming is more leftist BS.
The Earth has warmed and cooled since time immemorial, on its own schedule. It will continue to do so, even if every human is long dead.
“get a decent non-leftist forestry degree these days”
You cant. They have been all infiltrated by the mindless drivel of global good.
Used to be you could get a good degree from places like Mich Tech. Even the forestry PHDs at those types of institutions have thrown up their hands.
To quote one-”You can NOT teach good forestry practices any longer.” They dont get out into hands on training anymore like they used to.
The best forestry schools are now the smaller Tech schools which teach basic skills in forestry and have hands on training.
I know of very few, if any, at the USFS that have forestry degrees.
I live in Western Washington, and our summer was a bit cooler and wetter than normal, at least until about mid July. The warm weather then extended until about the second week of September, which is normal. During the summer, we had one or two days over 90 degrees, which is about normal.”
I also live in Western Washington. The same as last summer it was a long time before we got any summer. If anything, the summers have been shorter and colder than in the past. I have not even been able to grow good tomatoes for the last couple of year. Summer takes too long to come on and by the time they ripen they are mush.
Then we got the southern wind blowing the smoke up from Oregon. Just as in Washington state, Oregon does not maintain the forests. The underbrush grows, choking the forest service roads, and so there is a lot of dry tinder for various insane anarchists to start fires. We are poor stewards of the forests which are largely federally and state owned. In southern states where more land is privately owned they do not have these wildfires.
I still have about two hundred (or more) green cherry tomatoes that might not ripen because of the cool, wet weather early this summer. I purchased the seedlings in early May, when I usually do.”
I usually grow three tomato plants with no effort. This year I only had two because there was a shortage north of Seattle. I bought one broken plant and sprouted roots on the broken off part. I Planted both and they came on with blossoms and a few ripened cherries but then they started rotting before ripening. I have a nice southwestern exposure but with the wet cold weather it was hopeless.
Last summer was no better.
Most of California's August fires were caused by a massive dry lighting storm which started thousands of fires over about a 30,000 square mile area. We simply can't tell how many climate-induced fires there'd have been otherwise.
Plus the same dry lightning storm brought high winds with it so we can't tell if "climate change" drying out of northern California's August fires made them worse. The storm's winds blew some of the lightning-caused fires up into huge ones overnight.
The doomies here are arguing that "climate change" causes everything they don't like.
Speaking of Global Warming, the United States has been going down in CO2 emissions for quite some time, even with people deemed deniers in government.
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