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Most of the "environmentalists" I know are deeply in favor of controlled burns. At a national level, the Forest Service is largely behind the dangerous build up
by tinyplanet-o 3y ago
Most of the "environmentalists" I know are deeply in favor of controlled burns. At a national level, the Forest Service is largely behind the dangerous build up in tree density in our national forests, due to the their total and complete ban on prescribed burns (although to be fair, they've slowly come around to realizing the importance of controlled burns).
And the timber companies are definitely not involved in any prescribed burning efforts (don't want to lose out on all that inventory).
- dredmorbius 3y agoUSFS adopted prescribed burns in 1978. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36236104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36236104>
- thepasswordis 3y ago>Forest Service is largely behind the dangerous build up in tree density in our national forests, due to the their total and complete ban on prescribed burns (although to be fair, they've slowly come around to realizing the importance of controlled burns). This is comically false. The USFS absolutely engages in controlled burns.
- pharrington 3y agoYou are lying. Don't deliberately spread disinformation. https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/prescribed-fire https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/prescribed-fire
- karaterobot 3y agoNo, this is incorrect. The USFS does a lot of controlled burns, and has done them for a long time. Not sure where you heard otherwise: it's a significant part of what they do. They briefly paused doing them last year after a controlled burn got out of control in New Mexico, resulting in a high-profile wildfire. But that's only evidence that they were already doing them. Anyway, after updating their policies, they resumed prescribed burns later that year.