Fire killed trees store carbon for decades. Photo George Wuerthner In an Aug. 29 letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, lawmakers — mostly from California […]
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Mosquitoes And Wildfires–How To Live With Both
Learning to live with mosquitoes sometimes requires working from the body outward. Photo George Wuerthner Our approach to mosquitoes and wildfires has much in common. Both are typically maligned, […]
Cause of Today’s Giant Wildfires. Overly dense forests, or is it drought?
A high severity blaze on the Boise National Forest. Almost all large fires occur during extreme drought conditions. Photo George Wuerthner One continuously hears from the timber industry and its […]
Targeted Livestock Grazing Won’t Preclude Large Wildfires
Senators Steve Daines of Montana and Diane Feinstein of California have once again introduced legislation, the “Emergency Wildfire and Public Safety Act of 2020” that is based upon misguided assumptions […]
Response to TNC on wildfires
The April 25th article in the Yakima Herald “Fewer low-intensity fires means more severe fires” quotes Ryan Haugo, director of conservation science at The Nature Conservancy and contained many misstatements […]
Lessons from California Wildfires
The recent wildfires in California make me feel even more worried about the fate of anyone whose homes are built in the woods. California has experienced the 9 of the […]
Blood letting and wildfires
In Medieval society, if someone were sick, the common solution was to bleed the patient to rid the body of “bad” blood. If the patient recovered, then obviously bleeding was […]
Response to Senator Daines Washington Post commentary on wildfires
Montana GOP Senator Daines recently published a simplistic and misleading guest commentary on a wildfire in the Washington Post. In that editorial, Daines, like many other misinformed logging proponents claims […]