Only YOU can prevent forest fires
Only YOU can prevent forest fires
I'm hearing that the USFS has laid off huge numbers of firefighters, including veterans, and won't be allowed to hire their usual seasonal firefighting force this year.
Only YOU can prevent forest fires
I'm hearing that the USFS has laid off huge numbers of firefighters, including veterans, and won't be allowed to hire their usual seasonal firefighting force this year.
Meanwhile, Guantanamo prepares to deploy free labor the likes of which no one alive today has ever seen before!... Only read about on books about slavery.
Only the Left Coast burns, so this administration is fine with that.
For now.
In a 2022 analysis, the publication said that, by 2052, half the people at risk of wildfire will live in the South.
surely laying off fire protection agency officials during historic droughts brought by ever worsening climate change won't have any negative impact.
I can't wait to hear how this is good actually and if it isn't it's the Democrats fault.
Smokies dead. Just ask the orange tumor what the south african told him to do?
"This is fine"
RFK Jr. dumped Smokey's corpse in central park.
Fuck around = laying off many thousands of combat veterans
Find out = creating a small army of combat-trained Luigis
Time to start auctioning off public land
My wife works for the NPS and she says they’re next.
Yeah, they're firing everybody who was hired in the last two years, no matter what they work on. That includes people who do stuff like nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship — Musk denied a national security exemption for them.
Do we really want to prevent forest fires? Suppressing fires accumulates fuel, which leads to more severe wildfires. Natural records show North American forest fires naturally occurred with regularity, and we're at a deficit.
Several articles out there on this. A few
We want to run prescribed burns when it's wet, and suppress the high-intensity fires that destroy everything. Both actions require trained fire crews.
Yeah but they want more fires to blame on DEI and the democrats.
Not only that, periodic wildfires are a critical component in some ecosystems. I live near a an ecosystem that relies on prescribed burns from the Forest Service in order to keep it in shape. Before the FS was a thing our local Indigenous tribes were the ones doing these burns and maintaining the land. Letting it run wild would put us in a similar situation to the Western US, on top of the invasive species outperforming and choking out the native ones.
what a poor country, they really should start to developed civilisation there, its worth it.
Can we talk about how PG&E causes most of the fires- because they’re too cheap?
Maybe we can talk about how the California government, including Newsom, have explicitly allowed PG&E to pass along the fines for their responsibility in the fires and being convicted of manslaughter to customers. And how this has made the penalties for their criminal negligence meaningless.
it's almost like they should, I dunno, make a regulation or something that says power lines must be underground or something.
It was proven forest fires are caused by dei...
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The whole "Smokie" program was a massive failure. The fire fighters loss is horrible but don't do them dirty by comparing them to the forest fire equivalent to the D.A.R.E program.
Its been said in another comment but in case you don't see it: https://www.npr.org/2012/08/23/159373691/how-the-smokey-bear-effect-led-to-raging-wildfires
It's only called the smokey bear effect, this is a sprawl and nimby problem.
Many fire experts embrace controlled, or "prescribed," fires — purposely set fires that do the cleanup job that small natural fires once did. It takes the tinder out of the tinder box.
But people have built homes and towns close to forests; they don't like the smoke, and prescribed burns sometimes get out of control.
Allowing controlled burns is a whole separate issues than smokey bear telling people to put out their camp fires and not throw cigarettes into dry leaves...
Oh the smokie program had a lot more going on then that. It was more the change in how forests where managed that did the damage. Smokie is just the spokesbear.
I responded to it:
We want to run prescribed burns when it’s wet, and suppress the high-intensity fires that destroy everything. Both actions require trained fire crews.
It's funny because this meme is about 8 years old.