Newsbusters has a good record of the media coverage. We do however get a brief glimpse of what is really going on in the following segnent of the interview they record:
PELLEY: It was 20 years ago that firefighters got their first glimpse of what was to come. This is Yellowstone in 1988, when a third of the national park burned. Since then, fires have broken records in nine states. Several mega-fires, like this one in Arizona, have burned over half a million acres each. Why are there more of these fires? It turns out that the Forest Service is partly to blame, with a policy that it started 100 years ago.
UNKNOWN MAN E: The forest fire firefighter service stops fires, forest, bush and grass fires.
PELLEY: The policy was to try to putout all fires immediately.
BOATNER: Because we so successfully fought fire and eliminated fire from this ecosystem for 100 years, because we thought that was the right thing to do, we've allowed a huge buildup of fuel in these woods. So now, when the fires get going, there's a lot more to burn than historically you would've seen in a forest like this.
What is not mentioned is that Greenie pressure has largely halted the Forest Service practice of controlled winter burnoffs. These burnoffs safely reduce the amount of combustible materials and prevent fires at later times from becoming as big. The present unusually severe fires are a direct result of Greenie meddling with forest management
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You know, I live downwind from one of the Orange County fires (we're not in immediate danger), and I knew hard left activists would make the point about global warming. I've lived in Southern Calfornia most of my life, and every October we get horribly disastrous outbreaks of fire.
ReplyDeleteIt's not global warming that the cause. It's normal seasonal weather patterns, which create combustible conditions, which are aggravated by the despicable arsonists who torch the countryside to feed their megalomanical insanities.
Thanks for this.