Billy_Bob
Diamond Member
120 years of fuel has been deposited on the forest floor due to mismanagement.. Now we have what is called a crown fire burning that can not be put out and burns trees 2 feet into the ground killing all plants and bugs.No question! All because of the Spotted Owl.How much CO2 are the California wildfires releasing due to Democrats' criminal mismanagement of CA forests?
Wildfires Caused By Bad Environmental Policy Are Causing California Forests To Be Net CO2 Emitters
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Wildfires Caused By Bad Environmental Policy Are Causing California Forests To Be Net CO2 Emitters
If federal and state environmental policies continue to make it difficult and costly to harvest timber and manage the fuel load, then the wildfires will continue and they will be bigger and deadlier. This will, in due course, cause some politicians to blame the fires on climate change.www.forbes.com
Regarding reducing the fuel load, in an interview four months ago, Newsom said that there are
“Hundreds of millions of dead trees” in the state and that it cost his father $35,000 to clear “a small little patch of dead trees” on his property.
Newsom didn’t admit it, but the outrageous cost to remove a few dead trees from private land is a
consequence of California’s Byzantine environmental regulatory patchwork.
This is California’s big secret: it’s not climate change that’s burning up the forests, killing people, and destroying hundreds of homes; it’s decades of environmental mismanagement that has created a tinderbox of unharvested timber, dead trees, and thick underbrush.
In the early 1990s, a series of restrictions were placed on logging in the West to protect the Spotted Owl. As it turned out, nature was more complicated than expected, with owl numbers continuing to decline—even after the California timber harvest plummeted—due to predation from other raptors.
In the meantime, the harvest fell below the growth rate in the 1990s, to about 1.5 billion board feet per year over the past decade.
The tree harvest on federal lands is now one-tenth of what it was in 1988, President Reagan’s last full year in office.
This is the major reason for these fires irresponsible environmental regulations.
Logging and careful management is what is required..