There are many areas out here where doing a controlled burn requires an act
of Congress - no, make that a commandment from God. Almost everywhere,
there's some species loosing it's battle with evolution. In these places,
there can be no burns or (sometimes) even dry brush removal for fear of
destroying some multi-legged creature's habitat. There are those that will
tie it all up in the courts for years, demanding and challenging
environmental impact statements and such. Eventually, it gets destroyed
anyway, but no one discusses the great habitat loss from wildfires vs. the
controlled (smaller) habitat loss from prescribed burning. I'm a hunter and
there's nothing I want more than pristine forests and wild areas stocked
with the largest variety of healthy populations of all sorts of creatures,
but not doing everything possible to prevent this wild fire crap that
happens year after year is ridiculous.
Regards,
Bob...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Roshchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Tue Oct 23 18:43:36 EDT 2007
> David Savage wrote:
>
>> On 10/24/07, Igor Roshchin <str at komkon.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Some people may have heard about new fires in Southern California.
>> > Fires are burning in Malibu, Orange County, and San Diego and county.
>> >
>> > Here is a very impressive picture:
>> > http://www.komkon.org/~igor/CAfires_from_space.jpg
>>
>> Very cool (although not if your in it's path)
>>
>> I was just wondering last night after seeing the latest reports. Do
>> they (state land management department) do prescribed burning & cut
>> firebreaks earlier in the year before the start of the fire season?
>>
>
> I do not know. My feeling is that they do some work, but not much.
> The problem is that 2007 was rather dry. Doing controlled burns
> during summer was too dangerous, especially in the inhabited area where
> the fire is now burning.
>
> There are firebreaks but they are not sufficient in this situation:
> This is because of strong winds on Sunday and Monday - up to 70 mph.
> In such a wind embers fly long distance (they say - up to a mile or two).
> Many of buildings caught fire from embers, rather than from the moving
> front
> of the fire.
>
> In my opinion, one of the problems is the way many buildings a built
> here: they are made of combustible materials (wood, etc.) rather
> then of concrete. Yes, it is cheaper, but when the houses here
> cost a million and above, one would think that differential is less
> essential, but apparently - not.
> Yesterday, I was recalling the tale about three little piglets.
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