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.
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.
IIRC, Nat’l. Parks, BLM and, other gov. agencies have abandoned maintenance of critical fire cuts as well.
On every trip I have made in the last thirty years through the Rockies and Sierras I was shocked by the sheer amount of dead standing timber among the green. I thought it was just a tinder box waiting to explode.
Then it did.
“I live in the middle of gov control forest. It is a massive fire hazard”
How do you reconcile the place where you like to live with the fire hazard? Do you have insurance if your home burns down? Do most of the people that lost homes have insurance?
Why does your government “manage” forests? Is it primarily for safety of people living amongst them?
Why not just not manage forests and have people realize they might not want to live in them?
Are the fires damaging to the forests themselves?
Has the California Forestry Management Department failed the California citizens? Have they failed to protect or failed to inform of the hazards?
What should be done going forward?