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Most of the land West of the Mississippi is Federally owned. You wanna do fire abatement on BLM land, you got a long hard fight ahead of you, before you ever ge
by h2odragon 3y ago
Most of the land West of the Mississippi is Federally owned. You wanna do fire abatement on BLM land, you got a long hard fight ahead of you, before you ever get to a written regulation you can cite. Much less laws voted on by Congress.
- kibwen 3y agoSource for obsctruction from the BLM? As far as I can tell, they carry out controlled burns all the time (what they call "prescribed burning"): https://www.nifc.gov/sites/default/files/blm/documents/BLMFireProgramOverview.pdf https://www.nifc.gov/sites/default/files/blm/documents/BLMFi...
- h2odragon 3y agoThanks for the update, I was near some of the early lawsuits against the BLM to allow controlled burns back in the 90s; and haven't kept up with it much since then.
- AndrewOMartin 3y agoBLM = Bureau of Land Management.