Here in Washington state, we are doing our part by ensuring that dwellings have a wide perimeter that is non-flammable, and also doing prescribed burns during the off season to keep under brush at a minimum. In the last 6 years, we have minimized forest fires, increased firefighting personnel, and had the lowest number of fires reported in decades.
More than 80% of these wildfires are started by irresponsible people. I can't tell you how many people I know that go camping and never put out the campfire before leaving and pretty much said they didn't know they were supposed to! Good Grief!
I’ve seen the problem first hand I’m the high Colorado Rockies I saw huge mature trees with fallen dead trees stacked up around them to the depth of 20/30 feet. Only with a century of fire suppression can we get that much fuel piled up like this. It’s only a matter of time until this entire forest burns leaving only steep bare rocky mountainsides
You've made more assertions about climate change than the experts you had on. Planting seedlings on a bare open hillside is just poor planning. Saplings would've done much better, and they should start from what forested side remains and work their way up. Growing a forest takes decades.
We suppress fires because of property and life. We do promote prescribed burning and other methods of preventative measures to lower wildfire risk, but there are issues ranging from smoke management with people complaining about the smoke and the liability of it. The other is mechanical/physical removal of vegetation which is too expensive at times on top of, many places can't hire people to do these jobs or constantly have people quitting.
I fought bush fires in California many years ago. We used to go out and set back fires or "controlled burns" quite regularly to control dry vegetation cloae to properties in LA Co. You can blame the government for not having a nationwide program of doing this.
It may sound outlandish that people (other people is easier) but also things (inanimate, no human, such as the Earth, Nature - animals excepted -, computers) have "a mind of their own", since they react to things we & others do to them in a totally unexpected way as far as our own mind's concerned.
Great video to get people thinking. You point out that policy in place for over 100 years has lead to increasingly worse fires due to increased ground fuel and dryer vegetation. Only one solution you point out is prescribed burns but you lean heavily on the correlation that this won’t solve the problem as you say climate change is decreasing good burn days. You fail to mention that there are other means and methods of forest management that would aid in thinning dense vegetation and undergrowth, which also then allows for remaining trees to have more access to water and nutrients making them healthier and able to withstand fires, similar to how they did 100’s of years ago. This is logging. Correctly and responsibly thinning portions of the forest when prescribed burns aren’t available via logging is much more successful, but policy and public opinion has shut down logging in many locations across our great nation. A combination of many factors is to blame for increasingly more destructive fires, not 100% climate change.
Prescribed burns are banned in so many states- especially Cali. It’s not climate change. It’s the change of mans mind - those who make the laws and will no longer allow the prescribed burns.
@tgafire87 There is a lot of red tape and paperwork now to burn, especially with the Feds. Working for the State, like myself, we are starting to move to a lot more paperwork to even conduct a prescribed burn. Luckily, down here in the Southeast... many people understand about prescribed burning and logging. Though we do get some big wildfires at times, we do keep our wildfires smaller. The issue we do see is the cost and liability that landowners don't want to deal with.
I am not a climate change denier,at all, but you don't get to blame "climate change" for trees growing back or not if the only difference is 500 feet of distance. What a load of bs,& THAT,ladies and gentlemen, is exactly why so many people tune this stuff out. Furthermore, you don't get to JUST blame climate change in the last 50 years, while wholesale ignoring the absolute absurd population growth in these same exact areas. Particularly in the southwest,& especially in California,Arizona,Nevada,etc. Climate change or not, the cold hard truth is that the overwhelming majority of these fires are started by people where no people existed 50 years ago. Climate Change is absolutely a factor,moreso during this super drought, but it's not nearly even a top 5 on the list of reasons why there are more fires,& it may not be top 10 on why they're so much "worse". Particularly if $ is the metric defining "worse".
Role of climate change: More annual days conducive to wildfire (both in terms of weather and drying of vegetation), fewer annual days conducive to prescribed burns, decreased ability of vegetation to grow back.
Humans have been living here for at least 13,000 years, and there's good archeological evidence they've been using fire to manage forests for a good portion of that. Tuning out the explanations for why things are happening is like sleeping through most of a movie and then calling that movie junk because it didn't make sense to you.
@ziziroberts8041 I do think outside of the box and fight wildfires and know the history of wildfires. Was climate change responsible for the Great Fire of 1910 and the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin? This era didn't have as many vehicles or vehicles at all nor the manufacturing plants that we have today that many blame for "climate change."
How will the unregulated capitalism deal with this mess it's created. The US might lose its identity if moving on to a better system and care about our planet
Capitalism,SPECIFICALLY the private sector,and PARTICULARLY the fossil fuels and/or energy corporations otherwise, Are the only hope we have to fix this,whether you pissants like it or not. Very clearly the government nor left wing NIMBY "activists" are gonna do it.
Where I live in NC prescribed burns happen every 4-6 months. It. Keeps the forests healthier as well as gets rid of debris that can fuel a fire
Here in Washington state, we are doing our part by ensuring that dwellings have a wide perimeter that is non-flammable, and also doing prescribed burns during the off season to keep under brush at a minimum. In the last 6 years, we have minimized forest fires, increased firefighting personnel, and had the lowest number of fires reported in decades.
Prescribed burns should be a law. We have survived masking up for over 2 years, a few days for prescribed burns shouldn't be that bad.
More than 80% of these wildfires are started by irresponsible people.
I can't tell you how many people I know that go camping and never put out the campfire before leaving and pretty much said they didn't know they were supposed to! Good Grief!
😱😱😱 WHOA! That is astonishing!
Poor management of your forests means just a matter of time before smoke will appears.
Dropping your lit cigarette on the forest floor is poor personal management.
@@ziziroberts8041there will always be a source of fire. In the Midwest, prairie grass used to start burning with lightning strikes.
@@ziziroberts8041so does giving funds to immigrants instead of forestry
@ziziroberts8041 Takes low low humidity to start a wildfire by a cigarette. Nearly single digit humidity..
I’ve seen the problem first hand
I’m the high Colorado Rockies I saw huge mature trees with fallen dead trees stacked up around them to the depth of 20/30 feet. Only with a century of fire suppression can we get that much fuel piled up like this. It’s only a matter of time until this entire forest burns leaving only steep bare rocky mountainsides
You've made more assertions about climate change than the experts you had on. Planting seedlings on a bare open hillside is just poor planning. Saplings would've done much better, and they should start from what forested side remains and work their way up. Growing a forest takes decades.
As a 32 year old man, anybody with a brain should know fires are getting worse.
Its because people are moving more into a wildland urban interface.
We suppress fires because of property and life. We do promote prescribed burning and other methods of preventative measures to lower wildfire risk, but there are issues ranging from smoke management with people complaining about the smoke and the liability of it. The other is mechanical/physical removal of vegetation which is too expensive at times on top of, many places can't hire people to do these jobs or constantly have people quitting.
I fought bush fires in California many years ago. We used to go out and set back fires or "controlled burns" quite regularly to control dry vegetation cloae to properties in LA Co. You can blame the government for not having a nationwide program of doing this.
Trump told you to do this years ago! But now it’s ok to talk about controlled burns 😂
It may sound outlandish that people (other people is easier) but also things (inanimate, no human, such as the Earth, Nature - animals excepted -, computers) have "a mind of their own", since they react to things we & others do to them in a totally unexpected way as far as our own mind's concerned.
This is true, but drying conditions due to less rainfall and longer warmer summers leave the forests tinder dry and ready to burn baby burn.
Great video to get people thinking. You point out that policy in place for over 100 years has lead to increasingly worse fires due to increased ground fuel and dryer vegetation. Only one solution you point out is prescribed burns but you lean heavily on the correlation that this won’t solve the problem as you say climate change is decreasing good burn days. You fail to mention that there are other means and methods of forest management that would aid in thinning dense vegetation and undergrowth, which also then allows for remaining trees to have more access to water and nutrients making them healthier and able to withstand fires, similar to how they did 100’s of years ago. This is logging. Correctly and responsibly thinning portions of the forest when prescribed burns aren’t available via logging is much more successful, but policy and public opinion has shut down logging in many locations across our great nation. A combination of many factors is to blame for increasingly more destructive fires, not 100% climate change.
Prescribed burns are banned in so many states- especially Cali. It’s not climate change. It’s the change of mans mind - those who make the laws and will no longer allow the prescribed burns.
FALSE, Burns are not banned in CA. Been a burn boss for a decade here.
The issue is some places have more regulations. They aren't completely banned, but just restricted to how much they burn.
@@Wildland_Firefighter NEPA or any other red tape is not fun or easy.
@tgafire87 There is a lot of red tape and paperwork now to burn, especially with the Feds. Working for the State, like myself, we are starting to move to a lot more paperwork to even conduct a prescribed burn. Luckily, down here in the Southeast... many people understand about prescribed burning and logging. Though we do get some big wildfires at times, we do keep our wildfires smaller.
The issue we do see is the cost and liability that landowners don't want to deal with.
I am not a climate change denier,at all, but you don't get to blame "climate change" for trees growing back or not if the only difference is 500 feet of distance. What a load of bs,& THAT,ladies and gentlemen, is exactly why so many people tune this stuff out. Furthermore, you don't get to JUST blame climate change in the last 50 years, while wholesale ignoring the absolute absurd population growth in these same exact areas. Particularly in the southwest,& especially in California,Arizona,Nevada,etc. Climate change or not, the cold hard truth is that the overwhelming majority of these fires are started by people where no people existed 50 years ago. Climate Change is absolutely a factor,moreso during this super drought, but it's not nearly even a top 5 on the list of reasons why there are more fires,& it may not be top 10 on why they're so much "worse". Particularly if $ is the metric defining "worse".
I wonder if things would change if we put the offender's face on TV for the entire duration of the fire
Role of climate change: More annual days conducive to wildfire (both in terms of weather and drying of vegetation), fewer annual days conducive to prescribed burns, decreased ability of vegetation to grow back.
@@millirabbit4331hes on there all the time Gavin Newsom
Humans have been living here for at least 13,000 years, and there's good archeological evidence they've been using fire to manage forests for a good portion of that. Tuning out the explanations for why things are happening is like sleeping through most of a movie and then calling that movie junk because it didn't make sense to you.
Can anybody explain how the climate change decreases conditions for the "good fires"?
Don't be getting all choked up..
Soo disgusting how they treat trees using them for land stabilization then cutting them down hen theyget happy and strT really stettling ingrowing
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4:21 Laughing and joking. I'm done. What is this? Climate Change Is Here And Now, and it's not funny.
Shitpost right
The world is always changing. Nothing new.
@@Wildland_Firefighter Yes. Forests will always have fires. Now try thinking outside of the box.
@ziziroberts8041 I do think outside of the box and fight wildfires and know the history of wildfires.
Was climate change responsible for the Great Fire of 1910 and the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin? This era didn't have as many vehicles or vehicles at all nor the manufacturing plants that we have today that many blame for "climate change."
"How to keep prescription burns under controlc
Umm, don't start them in 60mph winds, like they did in New Mexico? Call me crazy?
The problem is they are having fewer and fewer "good" days to do prescribed burns.
A good day to burn is a good day for a wildfire...though there are red flag conditions you definitely don't need to burn in.
Lies lies lies
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RFK 2024!
Forest fires, floods. When are the locusts due in?
Monsanto killed them all
"An angel was given power to scorch men with fire."
😢 climate change will destroy our planet 🌎 and air pollution😢
Don't forget your tin hat.
😂😂😂😂😂😂Lies
Maybe in Canada but not in the US this yr..
It was last year. You know,before a top 5 all time winter helped MITIGATE effects of a 20 year drought.
It'll pick up later.
How will the unregulated capitalism deal with this mess it's created. The US might lose its identity if moving on to a better system and care about our planet
Capitalism,SPECIFICALLY the private sector,and PARTICULARLY the fossil fuels and/or energy corporations otherwise,
Are the only hope we have to fix this,whether you pissants like it or not. Very clearly the government nor left wing NIMBY "activists" are gonna do it.
Keep voting democrat you'll keep burning
Actually, it's poor forest management by the government, so the exact opposite of your assertion.
@@JK-zt4ym Well - the warmer planet won't care so much about that
What a load of bull
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