Collins Richey wrote:
I just learned that the reason that we (here in B. C.) are short of manpower to address these fires is that a Workers Compaensation ruling requires that anyone fighting a forest fire must possess cirtification by the Forestry. <snip>
The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck.
Not so sure that is as bad as you think. Back in my youth I used to fall timber on fires. Big trees like you have. Back then they would hire a guy that went out and buy a saw for the big bucks. If he didn't kill himself he could do it to a couple others, also. I'm not defending all of their rules or procedures. I have a kid (43 year old kid) who's on one of the special overhead teams for the USFS/BLM/??, the trouble with those teams as I see it is they move in on the locals that know the lay of the land and take over. In '87 they really botched about a quarter million burn around Happy Camp. Some jerk from Arizona tried to light a big back-burn 10 muiles long at the bank of the Klamath River 3 or 4 ridges away from the fire! Fortunatley it was so smokey and cold it wouldn't take. Oh well I'd better quit. I get real radical.
Bob
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