Fire and Forest Health
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2019
- On the Tahoe National Forest, wildland firefighters prepare for yet another fire season. But wildland firefighters aren’t the only Tahoe National Forest employees trying to stop catastrophic wildfires and increase forest health. Explore why our forests have changed and what’s being done to reverse this trend.
What an awesome video!!!🔥🔥
Excellent, great production.
mother nature: k hold my beer.
*explodes 10 different fires across the state*
great video!
Love it!
We need to learn how to let nature manage itself, and not only think of financial loss in regards to loss of timber that the USDA could otherwise sell off.
i understand protecting the forest, but fire also has many benefits and has been a part of shaping this lands primal forests. fire doesnt only take life, it gives birth to abundant new life. im not so convinced this attitude towards wildfires isnt mostly just about the USDA forest service need to sell timber to generate income to keep selling timber. A forest manages itself fine, they do best self managed. some fires should be allowed to burn, some that could risk lives should be managed.
But remember than today, wood is a prime resource, and forest need to be both productive and sustainable, sadly we cannot change that, but at least let's keep some healthy forest that can both be productive, sustainable, healthy and thriving.
So obviously the goal is to allow the forests, and in some cases assist them to grow the way they did hundreds of years ago. Allow things the function the way god intended, and everything will be better off for it. Im all down for that, i just hope its about collective well being not just about the forest service getting more power and overreach. The more big trees in our forests the better, the less risk of devestating fires. God speed
Sure wish Plumas and Lassen looked like yours they look more like your bad examples
Thanks to Trump and his interior secretary, a million acres burned just in California. It would have been cheap to prevent forest fires but they cut the budget. We then lost a million acres of federal land (vs. 30,000 of state land), dozens of lives, billions of dollars and some very brave fire fighters.
Your comment misses a great many factors that led to the fires in California and other western states. The chief among these is fire suppression for over a hundred years. The latter has led higher and denser fuel loads thus more intense fires. I really believe political comments don’t lend any value to the outcomes needed to better manage our forest. We need to use studies such as those done by New Mexico State University that shows the benefits to wildlife, namely mule deer, and ranchers of fire in pinion juniper forest. In other words, public opinion put forth by laymen can very counter productive. Take care.
Sorry, but you can't take the easy way out and do the Democrat default cry "blame Trump"...try looking at weather manipulation through geo-engineering...the lack of vegetation management due to lawsuits by environmental groups that halt any and all logging that might have helped thin out dead and dying trees thanks to the drought conditions found in the Sierra Nevada, and also the changes in fire suppression methods from the old school ways of "Fight Fire with One Foot in the Black" to "back off and just burn out". Cal Fire has a whole different approach to fire suppression and the Forest Service seems to have gone along to get along. And @nmelkhunter's reply is spot on--the 100 years of fire suppression has not been kind in the long run...and I used to work for the USFS in fire prevention! My last prevention job was in Greenville CA (I left there in 1997) and look what happened there. I truly think that Greenville and its neighboring small communities were sacrificed so that more affluent communities to the north could get the necessary resources to save them. Thank God nobody died there, unlike the fire over in Paradise a few years earlier. RIP to all the small towns in rural America that are being destroyed by forces we cannot comprehend or accept.