Fuel Reduction on Public Lands
Fire Prevention with Direct Action Pile Burning
Depending
on where you recreate and live and, of course, the weather, you may see this
type of fuel reduction burning on federal lands this time of year. Usually,
there will be signs along roadways where you can see the smoke so you don't
report it (because it is controlled and conducted on purpose).
What you will
see are piles of debris, logging slash, and timber stand improvement trimmings
and thinning. They may have sat over the winter with a tarp on them to dry
them out for a good burn day in spring or early summer, perhaps even in fall.
This is all good for the forest.
The USDA
Forest Service has undertaken a 10-year strategy to confront the wildfire
crisis (especially in the West and particularly in CA). Speaking as someone who
served for nearly 30 years in the wildland fire service and the same guy who
wrote about how we are now in the Mega-Fire Generation, I am always happy to
see more prescribed (controlled) burning in most forests of the West.
Read more here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/.../forest-service-has-vision...
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