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<blockquote data-quote="wbm" data-source="post: 1468284" data-attributes="member: 14158"><p>No. Native Americans put the fires out, ate the beetles, and put copper lightning rods on the tallest trees. The reason we have so many uncontrollable widlfires is because the Forest Service and other land management agencies practiced stomp um all out "Smokey Bear" fire mismanagement for over a century. After they had managed to allow enough fuel to accumulate to heat every home in North America and Europe for a decade, nature caught up with them. Now the problem is too large to do much about. Flammable forests burn....their own flammability assures their long term survival. The tax payer has paid for years of data collection at Range Experiment Stations. All of them have been saying for years....we should have quit putting all the **** fires out decades ago. I finally retired as a fire ecology specialist with Interior with full knowledge that the problems we created in fire suppression are beyond out ability to mitigate on a national scale. You just wait for the big ones, like in Oregon and California, and then move on...hopefully to better management policy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbm, post: 1468284, member: 14158"] No. Native Americans put the fires out, ate the beetles, and put copper lightning rods on the tallest trees. The reason we have so many uncontrollable widlfires is because the Forest Service and other land management agencies practiced stomp um all out "Smokey Bear" fire mismanagement for over a century. After they had managed to allow enough fuel to accumulate to heat every home in North America and Europe for a decade, nature caught up with them. Now the problem is too large to do much about. Flammable forests burn....their own flammability assures their long term survival. The tax payer has paid for years of data collection at Range Experiment Stations. All of them have been saying for years....we should have quit putting all the **** fires out decades ago. I finally retired as a fire ecology specialist with Interior with full knowledge that the problems we created in fire suppression are beyond out ability to mitigate on a national scale. You just wait for the big ones, like in Oregon and California, and then move on...hopefully to better management policy. [/QUOTE]
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