Are the figures for the past decade the total burned, the planned burn or just the wild burn?
I ask because I read something, not closely at all, sometime in the past week or so, that seemed to be saying for the past decade environmental policies and regulators have been preventing so much of the planned burn the west has a serious problem Based on that one might think that rather than some mild years coming up more of the same, and even more of that, might be more likely.
For those living there I just say “Hope that is wrong!”
I’ve heard mixed things about the “preventing the burn” – my current very very vague correct-me-if-I’m-wrong understanding is that “people actively preventing burns” was a 20th century thing, and nowadays there’s some kind of consensus of “okay we need to do more planned burns”, but, it’s sort of intrinsically tricky how to cause that or incentivize it. (because, it is still totally possible for people doing controlled burns to fuck up and cause major damage, and it’s some combination of ‘politically unpalatable’ and possibly also ‘actually a bad idea’ to just encourage people to burn things willy nilly)
Are the figures for the past decade the total burned, the planned burn or just the wild burn?
I ask because I read something, not closely at all, sometime in the past week or so, that seemed to be saying for the past decade environmental policies and regulators have been preventing so much of the planned burn the west has a serious problem Based on that one might think that rather than some mild years coming up more of the same, and even more of that, might be more likely.
For those living there I just say “Hope that is wrong!”
I was going off wikipedia California Wildfires (search for “Post-2000”)
I’ve heard mixed things about the “preventing the burn” – my current very very vague correct-me-if-I’m-wrong understanding is that “people actively preventing burns” was a 20th century thing, and nowadays there’s some kind of consensus of “okay we need to do more planned burns”, but, it’s sort of intrinsically tricky how to cause that or incentivize it. (because, it is still totally possible for people doing controlled burns to fuck up and cause major damage, and it’s some combination of ‘politically unpalatable’ and possibly also ‘actually a bad idea’ to just encourage people to burn things willy nilly)