Posted on 11/19/2018 8:27:04 AM PST by rktman
A national logging organization is offering support to President Trump following catastrophic wildfires in California and a political debate over the causes of the destructive blazes.
“President Trump blamed poor forest management for wildfires in California and throughout the West, and there is truth to statements he has made,” said Daniel Dructor, executive vice president of the American Loggers Council, a coalition of state and regional associations that represents independent contract loggers.
“It’s time to rise above political posturing and recognize that active forest management — including logging, thinning, grazing and controlled burning — are tools that can and must be used to reduce fire risks and help mitigate the impacts to landscapes,” Mr. Dructor said in a statement.
According to the council, some 60 million to 80 million acres of national forest are at “high, to very high, risk of catastrophic wildfire.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Jerry Brown is clinically insane and should be removed from office on psychological fitness grounds. Just yesterday, standing amongst ashes, he went off on climate change as the culprit.
I live in the middle of gov control forest. It is a massive fire hazard. We get fires up here all the time, had to evacuate one year. Forest service won’t let anyone cut down the trees killed by the pine beetle.
We have dead trees all over the place, then lighting comes and boom, fire.
Same here in Wyoming. When you head up into the mountains it’s obvious the forest is over grown and over saturated with beetle kill. It’s a tinderbox. Anyone with common sense could do a better job than the clowns in the USFS. My theory is their superiors want all the trees in the west to burn so we can see an up tick in CO2 (trees love CO2 in case you didn’t know that) and be able to scream gloBULL warming.
The Enviroweenies would rather see a tree burned then to be harvested to provide lumber for homes and furniture and other useful works. The lives and destroyed homes of so many are at their feet. They need to learn and help with the actual management of the forests.
I mentioned this last week, but I remember Dr. Bill Wattenburg saying that there are never any large fires in lumber company owned forests. That was 25 or so years ago and since then I’ve heard of one.
Hey, when you dwell in a tiny house in the middle of the city or high rise with a 600 sq/ft apartment, what do you care about erf killers living in the woods?
IIRC, Nat’l. Parks, BLM and, other gov. agencies have abandoned maintenance of critical fire cuts as well.
Well, when you get a haircut, you’d better go back home
When you get a haircut, get a barber you have known...
My theory is that owners of private timber land (Weyerhaeuser, for example, owns 13 million acres of private forest) don't want the competition from public forests.
Yep!
What was more insane was the firefighter’s chief in a TV interview saying that president Trump was completely wrong about forest management, because in California we did not really have forests like in Finland.
He was saying that it was all a ‘perfect’ storm of global warming and drought and there was nothing pro-active they could do other than pray for the people that perished in the fire.
I was so disgusted.. He sounded like a Shaman about to pray for rain with a rain dance. I switched the channel.
Oh!.. Despair....there is nothing we can do except light your lighters at night.. But wait! that evil Trump proposed something pro-active, something we could be doing to stop this devastation? Stop him! He doesn’t know what he is doing! he is not a professional bureaucrat! He might actually succeed. OMG! the horror! /s
Poor forest management: A state of affairs persisting since 1990 ...
Yeah I’ve heard that one too. There’s also the theory that it’s all about water conservation - let the trees burn so there will be water. Who really knows, but we do know they’re horribly managed.
It makes sense to anyone involved in the wood industry. The same people that pounded spikes into trees to harm the loggers were finally able to install their perverted anti-industry/anti-growth agenda.
Back in the day, the most efficient logging procedures (high-lead logging) created quite a bit of inflammable debris ("slash"). Our federal contracts required us to control burn it to prevent spread of future fires (see Jerry Brown/California).
The process was thought so important that Forest Service reps were onsite to assure proper performance. It usually involved a very long day in a smoky environment and they were right there with us.
The Enviroweenies would rather see a tree burned then to be harvested to provide lumber for homes and furniture and other useful work
There is a whole lot of truth to that.
http://www.pushback.com/Wattenburg/articles/NowTheyHaveBurnedLosAlamos.html
For me this is the definitive writing on managing forest fires. Dr. Wattenberg had late night radio show from the bay area. He worked at Lawrence Livermore Labs and was called the smartest man you can talk to for free (on the radio).
The state of Cal ignored him on gasoline additives and clearing underbrush from forests, He died 3 months ago, but his work is on the internet.
Here is the problem. Cant cut within a 100 feet of a stream-its called a RMZ.
Why? Because of silt that might get into the stream. But mother nature doesnt care one whit about that silt does it? When it burns, it burns right to the stream bank and then all that ash gets into that stream. And ash and water combined makes what? I wonder if they think they can get lye out of that water.
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