By Eric Worrall – Re-Blogged From WUWT
Aussie Royal Commission to Investigate how Climate Activists “Hijacked” Forestry Management
Forest Fires
The Guardian: Support Climate Action or Face Hellfire
By Eric Worrall – Re-Blogged From WUWT
h/t Ivan Kinsman – According to The Guardian, if you don’t mend your wicked ways you will burn in climate driven hellfire. But the Guardian fails to identify the true culprits behind USA’s devastating wildfires.
California Relaxes Logging Regulations
By Eric Worrall – Re-Blogged From WUWT
h/t Dr. Willie Soon / Daily Caller – After weeks of climate change rhetoric, California Governor Jerry Brown has decided to do something practical to reduce Californian fire risk, by proposing a relaxation of regulations governing logging and tree thinning.
California fires: Governor proposes easing logging rules to thin forests
It’s Weather, Not Climate Change, Governor Brown
By Robert W. Endlich – Re-Blogged From http://www.WattsUpWithThat.com
Weather, not human-caused CO2-fueled global warming, is responsible for California wildfires
2017 featured incredibly intense, damaging wildfires in California: first the Wine Country fires of October, and later the massive Thomas Fire in December. Each destroyed hundreds of homes, the latter in many of the affluent suburbs and enclaves northwest of Los Angeles and Hollywood.
The Thomas Fire is the largest in modern California history, with over 1000 structures destroyed. The fires and subsequent mudslides killed over 60 people and left many others severely burned or injured.
Standing in the Flames of a Prescribed Burn
By Seeker – Re-Blogged From https://www.seeker.com
To prevent mega-wildfires from spiraling out of control, technicians set landscapes ablaze on purpose.
Wildfires have become increasingly intense and dangerous, burning millions of acres annually and costing billions to control nationwide. Wildfire severity has been on the rise thanks to a decades long policy of fire suppression; essentially putting out any and all natural fires, no exceptions. This stance has resulted in a surprisingly unintended effect. Landscapes are now choked with trees, grass, and shrubs, essentially fuel for a mega fire.
To address this burning problem, fire managers are starting to embrace controlled burns, or prescribed fires. They are deliberately set fires that do the cleanup job that natural fires once did. A specially trained team will execute a carefully designed and managed controlled burn, to light the landscape ablaze and maintaining the fire line so nothing gets out of control. So to save forest and prairie ecosystems, you have to let it burn.
Step inside a prescribed burn and see how seasoned technicians harness the power of fire to maintain a prairie ecosystem. See the video at:
Finally, Some Commonsense Western Fire Policies
By Paul Driessen – Re-Blogged From http://www.WattsUpWithThat.com
New DOI and DOA policy to cut overgrown, diseased, dead and burned trees is long overdue.
President Trump promised to bring fresh ideas and policies to Washington. Now Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue are doing exactly that in a critically important area: forest management and conflagration prevention. Their actions are informed, courageous and long overdue.
Westerners are delighted, and I’ve advocated such reforms since my days on Capitol Hill in the 1980s.
