silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-216 days agoThe MAGA plan to stop forest fires: Remove the forest | Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse.heated.worldexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
arrow-up127arrow-down1external-linkThe MAGA plan to stop forest fires: Remove the forest | Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse.heated.worldsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-216 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-216 days agoA combination of thinning and prescribed burns definitely does better at reducing fire intensity It doesn’t look like a commercial clear-cut operation though.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoPrior to 1492 natives kept the forest healthy through both those methods. When Europeans arrived they reported being able to ride through the forest at a full gallop which would be impossible because of the undergrowth today.
A combination of thinning and prescribed burns definitely does better at reducing fire intensity
It doesn’t look like a commercial clear-cut operation though.
Prior to 1492 natives kept the forest healthy through both those methods. When Europeans arrived they reported being able to ride through the forest at a full gallop which would be impossible because of the undergrowth today.