Del Albright

USDA Forest Service Retirees Call National Forest Policies Unsustainable! The National Association of Forest Service Retirees (NAFSR) have called the USDA Forest Service policies and procedures for forest health and wildland fire suppression unsustainable!  They have offered up a 10-point plan of actions to clarify and improve the current fire policy situation.  In abbreviated form, it calls for: 1.            More active management of forests and grasslands; 2.            Reduced fuel loading and more prescribed fire; 3.            Review and learning from past big fires like Yellowstone, 1988; 4.            Clarification of fire policies concerning when to implement aggressive initial attack; 5.        ...