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Do you think it would help to hold some sort of conference every year or two about firefighting techniques and science?
by namlem 9y ago
Do you think it would help to hold some sort of conference every year or two about firefighting techniques and science?
- SandersAK 9y agoThey do have conferences. I think the bigger issue is that there isn't really a good budget for this stuff. Most of the budget goes to handling fires that are really out of control, and there's more and more of those every year. If you doubled the budget, hired fuels teams with scientists at the head of the teams (instead of fire fighters) and applied that budget to thinning and controlled burns, you'd probably have much safer more defensible forests areas. Also, there's a huge gray area around what fires to prioritize and when to fight them. A good example of "letting it rip" and "let them log" was the Egley complex fire in 2007 (one of my last fires!): https://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/success/stories/2009/nfp_2009_or_fs_manf_fuels.shtml https://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/success/stories/2009/nf...