Could be hard year for fires in California


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I read that due to Pandemic concerns, the Trump administration has stopped controlled burns on public lands in the areas of Washington, Oregon and California.  These controlled burns are normally used to take out overgrown areas or areas prone to being more catalysts for wildfire growth.  Without the controlled burns it could enable wildfires to spread more rapidly and fiercely.

It doesn't mean it will be a bad year (it could even be a good year), but without the pro-active controlled burns the likelihood  of wildfires going out of control are higher.  It's a no win scenario in this.  They want more social isolation and distancing to control the virus which means less people out there an interacting (Which would be required, at least to a degree, with a controlled burn), but the fall out of it could have ramifications we have not dealt with yet.

Good Luck CA, and possibly WA and Oregon.

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1 hour ago, JohnsonJones said:

I read that due to Pandemic concerns, the Trump administration has stopped controlled burns on public lands in the areas of Washington, Oregon and California.  These controlled burns are normally used to take out overgrown areas or areas prone to being more catalysts for wildfire growth.  Without the controlled burns it could enable wildfires to spread more rapidly and fiercely.

It doesn't mean it will be a bad year (it could even be a good year), but without the pro-active controlled burns the likelihood  of wildfires going out of control are higher.  It's a no win scenario in this.  They want more social isolation and distancing to control the virus which means less people out there an interacting (Which would be required, at least to a degree, with a controlled burn), but the fall out of it could have ramifications we have not dealt with yet.

Good Luck CA, and possibly WA and Oregon.

Is "controlled burn" for "wildfires" a metaphor for modern times?

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1 hour ago, JohnsonJones said:

I read that due to Pandemic concerns, the Trump administration has stopped controlled burns on public lands in the areas of Washington, Oregon and California.  These controlled burns are normally used to take out overgrown areas or areas prone to being more catalysts for wildfire growth.  Without the controlled burns it could enable wildfires to spread more rapidly and fiercely.

It doesn't mean it will be a bad year (it could even be a good year), but without the pro-active controlled burns the likelihood  of wildfires going out of control are higher.  It's a no win scenario in this.  They want more social isolation and distancing to control the virus which means less people out there an interacting (Which would be required, at least to a degree, with a controlled burn), but the fall out of it could have ramifications we have not dealt with yet.

Good Luck CA, and possibly WA and Oregon.

Here In CA we have had a relatively wet spring so far.  I'm certainly not expecting any unusual activity.  BTW controlled burning is an EnviroNazi issue.  They're agin' it.  There wasn't much going on anyway.  That's some of the reason fires get so out of hand here.

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