Wildfires in the West Revive Push to Thin Federal Forests
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NOTE: "We can't do anything about the weather, but we can do things about forest management that make sense so we can diminish forest fires for the future,"
In their corner are
"A lack of active management has left our forests overly dense and stocked with dead and dying trees that feed catastrophic wildfires," said chairman
Wildfires in the West Revive Push to Thin Federal Forests The Washington Times Valerie Richardson
Westerners are sick of it: the smoke, the evacuations, the moon turned burnt orange by soot, all driven by catastrophic wildfires by now so predictable that they practically have their own season.
"The summers here are about a month and a half because the rest of the time is spent fighting forest fires," said Interior Secretary
Year in and year out,
But 2017 may be different. As treacherous late-season wildfires burn millions of acres from
"How many more thousands of acres in
"We can't do anything about the weather, but we can do things about forest management that make sense so we can diminish forest fires for the future,"
In their corner are
The legislation won approval in June from the
"A lack of active management has left our forests overly dense and stocked with dead and dying trees that feed catastrophic wildfires," said chairman
The reignited debate comes as the
"Our forests have turned into time bombs,"
"The debate over logging and lawsuits is literally a smoke screen to divert the conversation away from climate change and warming, which is why places like
"Irrespective of the cause or the effect, let's do what we can," said
Nearly 8 million acres have burned so far in 2017, making this a worse-than-average wildfire year despite the wet winter and spring.
Other states reporting a rash of wildfires include
One reason" Climate change. The Democrat argued that the state's 102 million dead trees have created their own climate crisis in that the die-off "worsens wildfire risk across large regions of the State" and "such wildfires will release thousands of tons of greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants."
The
He predicted the House would soon pass the Resilient Federal Forests Act and urged the
At least four states have declared states of emergency as a result of this year's wildfires, while the
"Either we are going to manage the forests,"
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