Burning markets parallel burning forests
Larry Harrell
blasts both the economic world and the eco-world for mismanaging their
(our) resources.
http://westinstenv.org/sosf/2008/12/02/the-pyric-moral-hazard/
Lefty foresters should check out the rest of the site to see what a
right-wing environmental website looks like....LOL
Larry
PS New Yosemite pics on my blog ------> http://LHFotoware.blogspot.com
mhagen
That's an excellent essay. He should submit it to the Wall Street
Journal op-ed page.
Joe
their neighborhoods
"Larry Harrell" <lhfot...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Joe
why don't they all contribute to periodic prescribed burns? Out of control
fires cost billions in damage. I should think a prescribed burn consulting
firm could make a fortune out there.
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Larry Harrell
danger ;^)
What good does it do to clear your land when the adjacent Federal
lands are hopelessly overgrown? If you're a celebrity, you call in
some "favors" and get some work done close by. If you're a regular
citizen, you hope that the next fire will stay inside the lines on the
map (which it never seems to do). There hasn't been a commercial
logging program in southern California for 2 decades now. The bed has
been made and people gotta sleep sometime.
I wonder what liability insurance would cost for a company that burns
tiny little patches of a big haystack in a high rent district. The
Forest Service has proven that it can't manage the fuels with just
fire. They've even tried flying out fuels with a helicopter and that
proved to just be an expensive drop in the bucket. I guess America is
stuck with a disaster they can't pay for, eh?
Larry
D. Staples
> Yuh, how about in California, all those fancy houses all over the
> hillsides- why don't they all contribute to periodic prescribed burns?
> Out of control fires cost billions in damage. I should think a
> prescribed burn consulting firm could make a fortune out there.
>
>
> "Joe" <xxz...@xxyyzzqztrg.com> wrote in message
> news:gh8r9c$41e$1...@aioe.org...
>> people who build in fire prone areas should pay for prescribed burning
>> in their neighborhoods
>>
Nah, that would require some one out there to actually understand fire,
and the environmental relationship to the plants.
Joe
America- she's a billionaire. Let her and the other rich pay for all of it,
private and public land.
"Larry Harrell" <lhfot...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Larry Caldwell
@d42g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, lhfot...@hotmail.com (Larry Harrell)
says...
> What good does it do to clear your land when the adjacent Federal
> lands are hopelessly overgrown? If you're a celebrity, you call in
> some "favors" and get some work done close by. If you're a regular
> citizen, you hope that the next fire will stay inside the lines on the
> map (which it never seems to do). There hasn't been a commercial
> logging program in southern California for 2 decades now. The bed has
> been made and people gotta sleep sometime.
You may recall that the Biscuit fire did a good job of staying within
the lines on a map. As soon as it burned onto private lands, the land
owners put it out. Of course, the adjacent land owners managed their
forests, had fire access roads that acted as pre-built fire breaks, etc.
I'm not in favor of moving all the private management practices onto
federal lands. I really wish the industrial owners would cut back on
chemical applications. However, they do a lot just with planting and
thinning that would produce a lot of wood and drastically reduce fire
danger.
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