![]() Two dry winters have passed with good burn conditions and yet I’ve seen very little prescribed smoke in the air. The forest is in no condition to burn safely in its present condition. To say we can prescribe burn our way out 100 years of fire suppression is a fallacy without extensive fuel modification. No one is putting up the millions to build the infrastructure yet billions are thrown at wildfire. The infrastructure (loggers, mills, biomass plants) that was there has been killed by a thousand lawsuits and nothing is left to deal with the small trees that have grown in over a century of fire suppression. The closure of biomass plants throughout CA over the past decades has removed an economical destination for small diameter trees. Suffice it to say lack of management (be it logging, prescribed fire) and allowing vegetation ingrowth through active fire suppression have completely changed the fuel profile of California. The complex factors involved in a wildfire cannot be adequately explained in a short video and even less so in an editorial comment.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |