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Just because another country does something stupid doesn't make it a good idea. Also, as noted in another comment, the one time this was done in Sweden, it was
by waterphone 8y ago
Just because another country does something stupid doesn't make it a good idea. Also, as noted in another comment, the one time this was done in Sweden, it was a fire on a military base.
In the U.S., cultural resource protection is one of the considerations in wildlands firefighting, and a significant number of wildfires in the U.S. west occur within designated Wilderness areas where minimum impact suppression efforts are required by law. This means, e.g., you can't run a bulldozer through to cut a fireline in Wilderness, and in some cases can't even drop slurry because it might cause permanent staining on rock outcrops, damaging a natural resource. Dropping weapons-grade bombs is going to be a non-starter, as it should be.
- briandear 8y agoWeird. Because there are all sorts of bulldozing at work right now in the California wildfires: https://www.ocregister.com/2016/07/13/these-bulldozers-are-firefighters-too-plowing-through-dirt-and-danger/ https://www.ocregister.com/2016/07/13/these-bulldozers-are-f...
- waterphone 8y agoBulldozers are used in fireline construction, but not in designated Wilderness areas. Wilderness restrictions were one example of why this is a bad idea, but they are not the only reason.