youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:58 pmBarack says it is CC...Peter Brown wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:50 pmyouthathletics wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 5:23 pmA couple of things could help stipend the fed.state budget for "forest sweeping". (i) Builders incur an "impact fee" for forestry preservation. (ii) instead of releasing their bond once they line their streets with trees, it is released after they have paid their impact fees once the build(s) are completed. (iii) another opportunity for a P3 program...one that uses funds for technology to detect heat/fire using GPS and Thermal imagery with more sq/mile support. (there are programs out there that can find underground water and gas leaks in pipes based on GPS imagery.a fan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:24 pmIt's two things. Budgeting and rich people.old salt wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 3:22 pmExactly. There's too much dead timber & underbrush in the at risk regions of the west to "sweep" it all, but blaming it on CC & waiting for a GND is just a dodge & cop out.RedFromMI wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 1:18 pm That is also why we need controlled burns in forests - which is relatively easy in forests without houses/towns.
But back when I lived in N. Florida, it was quite common to travel north into southern GA and see all sorts of controlled burns in forests primarily used for wood pulp production...
The Dept. of interior doesn't have the money, and 90% of these issues are on Federal Land. There's no money for management...it's all being blown trying to keep fires under control and away from properties.
Then the folks...and investors....in these areas don't want the burns. That one might change.
As for budgeting? That's up to Congress to change the investment. We're wasting billions fixing these problems, when we could spend millions to manage forests and PREVENT larger problems. It's what we do soooooo well in America now.
Sure, these are 'ideas' that are already likely in use, but there certainly needs to be a better method of response...much like what we see when we are hit with other natural disasters and large utility firms support each other, nationally. Water/Chemical dropping helos on the ready.
Arson isn’t global warming.
Then there is this...
Arson isn’t global warming.
(Should Democrats be allowed to vote? The idiocy burns).