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I've been told that yes - more frequent, smaller burns would be all around better; however, these areas are largely populated and there is zero political will t

I've been told that yes - more frequent, smaller burns would be all around better; however, these areas are largely populated and there is zero political will to voluntarily threaten the properties - even if it reduces the risk of catastrophic fires.

cowpewter 9y ago
That sucks. Around here at least most of the areas that need controlled burns are sparsely populated due to it mostly being federal parkland[1]. Anyway, I guess we have sufficient political will here in Florida, or at least we do after we saw what happens when we don't - the wildfires we had in 1998 [2]. Which were terrifying. The fires got within a few miles of our house at one point, and the sky looked like the scene from Fantasia where all the dinosaurs are dying, with an orange sun that was so dimmed by smoke you could look directly at it without even getting an afterimage on your retina. Ash fell from the sky like snow, and everything smelled like woodsmoke for months. [1] The Ocala National Forest https://www.fs.usda.gov/ocala https://www.fs.usda.gov/ocala [2] https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+1998+wildfires+in+Central+Florida%3A+Volusia+County's+own...-a054250752 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+1998+wildfires+in+Central...