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Just "cut down all the trees" to slow climate change says Zinke - typical idiotic, unreasoned, pseudo-science, faux MAGA "solution"; then Zinke acts smug to deal with his cognitive dissonance for destroying his own children's future home; PROFIT$ is all Putin/Trump/MAGA corporate cronies care for.

For many people it was all they had. They didn’t have time to go to the store when they were running for their lives. Maybe now is not the time for this. 🤷‍♀️

Once again, for the slow people in the back: For a mirade of reasons, the main one being that without trees, we will have little to no oxygen, which we need to breath in order to live or that the planet will rapidly heat up and become a desert... WE CANNOT CUT DOWN ALL OF THE TREES.

YES! We call it controlled burning. We burn instead of raking. Also, "cutting down trees" is part of the treatment when the forest is overstocked. This makes the forest healthier and might slow down the fire so it can be controlled. FORESTRY at work.

Having trained with a wildland fire crew, I can more or less guarantee you that removing trees in some areas is an inevitable part of wildland fire mitigation. As pertains to the fires in LA, that partly means creating a larger buffer between the urban/wildland interface.

Also, in non-urbanized wilderness, the strongest weapon you have against the spread of fire is exposed a mineral layer to provide a break from the fire crossing ground vegetation. There’s no water being piped to the middle of a forested mountain to plug a hose into a hydrant & put out the flames.

As someone who's witnessed wildfires, I have to agree... in the right environment. But the LA fires are wind-driven, and the fires have a tendency to jump great distances. Can a mountainside prone to landslides and earthquakes, maintain a mineral layer of sufficient size to prevent wind-blown fire?

So… in ANY wildfire, the impact of wind blowing embers and creating spitfires that jump your breaks is a problem. They can even jump rivers in many cases. That’s going to be part of the challenge regardless. Especially given fire’s tendency to create its own weather after it gets hot enough.

Yeah… if he means old growth, that’s just not a great approach, as younger trees are more vulnerable to burns than much older trees.

I live in the desert. Fireworks are banned here because of brush fires. Family in the Texas panhandle who’re volunteer firefighters who fight GRASS fires during fire season… bad idea is an understatement on this one. 🤦‍♀️

I was told by our forester that the state won't thin the trees or cut away some of the underbrush. Doing that would go a long way to keeping those fires in check and make for healthier woodlands. You don't have to obliterate everything, just ease up on the underbrush.

I learned about the Panama Canal in grade school when I had a "country" project and chose Panama. I don't think American education is as terrible as much as our disdain for education in general. These people willfully reject what they learn for "new" self involved facts.

He stole that from Bush the junior. He thought we should just harvest all the trees. He never disclosed where we would get a workforce for that. This country simply must stop electing the village idiots to office.