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I've read this through a few times and have yet to see anything even remotely controversial. It's accepted, conventional wisdom - so deeply as to be cliche - e
by rsync 11y ago
I've read this through a few times and have yet to see anything even remotely controversial.
It's accepted, conventional wisdom - so deeply as to be cliche - everywhere in the fire service that managed burning and moving away from the emphasis on "stopping all burns no matter what" is the way to go.
I've never spoken to anyone that disagreed with this on any level other than specific tactics...
- guelo 11y agoThis is a very poor article. It doesn't explain what it was that happened except at the end where it says Science added a disclaimer note. The reporter didn't get a quote from the Forrest Service about the issue. It's sensationalistic more than informative.
- neltnerb 11y agoThis was certainly common enough knowledge that it was taught to me explicitly in Boy Scouts back in 1997. Preventing all forest fires builds up undergrowth so that the severity of eventual fires is much worse and they are less controllable. At the time, they were doing controlled burns of the Boy Scout camp (Philmont) in Nevada to try to make up for decades of undergrowth buildup before they knew better.
- BuffaloBagel 11y agoPhilmont is in New Mexico.
- neltnerb 11y agoI learned my geography in Indiana! ...