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.
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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.