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The Logjam in Biden’s $50 Billion Dollar Wildfire Plan.
The administration’s plan to thin forests ignores an important way that wildfires spread and set houses aflame.
Many structures in these towns were destroyed by firebrands — hot burning embers that can be carried by strong winds over many miles — not by flames from the original fires.
By Paul Koberstein & Jessica Applegate
https://undark.org/2023/11/23/opinion-wildfire-plan/
Me = Metal Roof + firebrand proof vents
@corlin
Yes, and retrofitting existing homes and having codes requiring new homes and structures be fire resistant is optimal. Seems it will follow local regs as feds can't have much effect at that level.
@FireMonkey @corlin i live next to a town owned lot of approx. 100 acres. they logged it 8 or 9 tears ago, & whomever their contracted logger was left a large amount of brush & cut & left smaller trees just laying. also, since this is NH, the top soil here is about 6" over ledge, which means poorly thinned stands of predominately conifers (pine & hemlock) just fall over like dominoes in winds over 30mph (which we get here often). it's a bad fire waiting to happen
@redenigma @corlin
Sounds like they didn't collect it into slash piles to burn when conditions were right. Oversight fail.
@FireMonkey @corlin they did not. i mentioned it when we were doing town disaster planning but they seemed more interested in flood control than wildfire prevention
@redenigma @corlin
Hmm, then chipping and mulching might have worked. I love watching those machines eat and spit out a whole tree in seconds.
@FireMonkey @corlin last time i had the woodlot harvested, i had them leave the brush in piles for critter habitat. i think next time i'll leave one or two brush piles & chip the rest to mulch the paths
@FireMonkey
Yes true this.
We need to do all the above. Big crown fires used to be rare, like every 10 years or so. Not so much now because the buildup of fuels.
But "thining" the forest means lot of different things, to private land and State and Fed, forests. We need a good enforceable policy.