prescribed fires would be a great way to thin out the forests and they are doing it in many places, the only problem with prescribed fires is that these forests are incredibly unhealthy, they're full of ladder fuels that can, under certain conditions, which seem to be conditions that arise most days out here, these prescribed burns will get up into the canopy, they will climb the ladder fuels and kill off the old growth trees, who's bark is immune to the short fires on the forest floor.
these ladder fuels are how we get to have too damn many trees per acre sucking up all the moisture in the ground, which makes all these trees highly combustible, even the big ones.
One neat thing, I noticed in a vast blackened area where the fire had gone through was that indeed that damn bark on some of them big ass Ponderosas worked like magic, except where the fire found a weakness in it and got inside the tree and burned all the wood up inside it, but the bark's still there, hollowed out for about 12 feet from the base when it fell over and still burning inside the tree trunk.
so if we could get some thinning by mechanical means then maybe we have the forest service come in and set their prescribed burns that remain on the forest floor, like the are supposed to.
this nature taking care of nature idea---it ain't going to happen, to argue it is to disregard human nature, it is to disregard the fact that fighting forest fires is a multi-billion industry.
but according to the latest jackass from illinois I need to find my meds, the day I take advice from someone in Illinois is the day I believe global warming is caused by SUVs
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