Thank you Zeke. This is Aaron from the Del Norte Fire Safe Council. You have really helped teach people in our community about the positives of fire on the land. My wife is the lead read on the fire, and as the County Coordinator I have been prepping people's homes with my small crew for the past two weeks. I was wearing a Lookout hat the other day, and the CALFIRE folks I was coordinating with recognized it. They like listening to you too. The community also appreciates your realistic interpretation of the Smith River Complex.
Super interesting stuff Zeke! I wonder if you would consider doing another one of these looking at fire severity over the years of the many lake county fires. From my perspective it burned so much of lake county it feels like there isn’t much left to burn but maybe it’s just all transitioned to brush now and is ready to spread fast again.
Thanks again Zeke, and thanks Aaron for your work helping me and many others protect our homes. I have seen first hand what you are talking about with the majority of the “acreage burned” being far from catastrophic, and mostly being mixed to beneficial for biodiversity and forest health in most fires here in NW CA. This is a major reason why we must fight any efforts that will be coming to “salvage log” any older trees and large snags. These snags host upwards of 3x the vertebrate biodiversity of an unburned living tree, and many wildflowers and trees here require fire for germination of seeds. Removing their habitat and biomass can take a beneficial burn and turn it into a biodiversity black hole. It also is used as an excuse to violate the basic principles of the Wilderness Act and other laws protecting our national heritage for our descendants. Thanks for your educational work Zeke to help us all live with fire more intelligently!
Wicked good work. The scary factor of million acre fires are what made me get into following wildfire but this kind of detail and science is what has kept me interested and given me hope. We need to work with nature not against it.
My buddy who is division supervisor on Smith River North is working with a couple hotshot crews to line a piece of fire that has slopped over the ridge road system they have been prepping and burning. If successful they will be able to continue using the ridgeline road system to tie the north end of the fire back into the south end. Their incident management team times out in a few days and an Alaskan team will take it.
Oh pity the comment function for the burning man update is off. I'm curious if they can get a point on the infrared satellite. Greetings from the Baltic Sea coast
I love your presentations and I wear your T-shirts whenever I am doing Firewise stuff, but I have a small bone to pick. You keep talking about how horrible the logging done by the Forest Service is. My only issue is that the Forest Service doesn't actually do any logging. Sure they are responsible and they are the planners, but this really lets the logging companies off the hook. They know what is happening. They know that high grading and leaving slash is a bad plan, but they push for those plans and often do even less than required. So yes, let's note that the Forest Service plans and oversight were/are often terrible. I just hear the loggers begging to go back to the 70s and they are really good at convincing their neighbors that it is the way things should be done.
Thank you Zeke. This is Aaron from the Del Norte Fire Safe Council. You have really helped teach people in our community about the positives of fire on the land. My wife is the lead read on the fire, and as the County Coordinator I have been prepping people's homes with my small crew for the past two weeks. I was wearing a Lookout hat the other day, and the CALFIRE folks I was coordinating with recognized it. They like listening to you too. The community also appreciates your realistic interpretation of the Smith River Complex.
Thank you.
The more I listen, as I do my morning errands, the more this very important information sinks in.
Thanks for all the great informtion!
Thanks for supporting THE LOOKOUT!
Super interesting stuff Zeke! I wonder if you would consider doing another one of these looking at fire severity over the years of the many lake county fires. From my perspective it burned so much of lake county it feels like there isn’t much left to burn but maybe it’s just all transitioned to brush now and is ready to spread fast again.
What you do is important to those of us living here. You have better coverage of fire events than any other sources we have available. Thank you.
I have learned so much so much from your posts…THANKS A LOT! 👍👍
This was a really great overview - I watched it with our new FFRP trainees in the Bay Area, thank you so much!
Thanks again Zeke, and thanks Aaron for your work helping me and many others protect our homes. I have seen first hand what you are talking about with the majority of the “acreage burned” being far from catastrophic, and mostly being mixed to beneficial for biodiversity and forest health in most fires here in NW CA. This is a major reason why we must fight any efforts that will be coming to “salvage log” any older trees and large snags. These snags host upwards of 3x the vertebrate biodiversity of an unburned living tree, and many wildflowers and trees here require fire for germination of seeds. Removing their habitat and biomass can take a beneficial burn and turn it into a biodiversity black hole. It also is used as an excuse to violate the basic principles of the Wilderness Act and other laws protecting our national heritage for our descendants.
Thanks for your educational work Zeke to help us all live with fire more intelligently!
Wicked good work. The scary factor of million acre fires are what made me get into following wildfire but this kind of detail and science is what has kept me interested and given me hope. We need to work with nature not against it.
My buddy who is division supervisor on Smith River North is working with a couple hotshot crews to line a piece of fire that has slopped over the ridge road system they have been prepping and burning. If successful they will be able to continue using the ridgeline road system to tie the north end of the fire back into the south end. Their incident management team times out in a few days and an Alaskan team will take it.
thanks for the up date on the flooded burn lmfao !!!!
Oh pity the comment function for the burning man update is off. I'm curious if they can get a point on the infrared satellite. Greetings from the Baltic Sea coast
I love your presentations and I wear your T-shirts whenever I am doing Firewise stuff, but I have a small bone to pick. You keep talking about how horrible the logging done by the Forest Service is. My only issue is that the Forest Service doesn't actually do any logging. Sure they are responsible and they are the planners, but this really lets the logging companies off the hook. They know what is happening. They know that high grading and leaving slash is a bad plan, but they push for those plans and often do even less than required. So yes, let's note that the Forest Service plans and oversight were/are often terrible. I just hear the loggers begging to go back to the 70s and they are really good at convincing their neighbors that it is the way things should be done.
Morning E