Millions of acres are currently on fire in Oregon and California. Lots of reasons being offered and lots of excuses. And the carnage and destruction continues regardless of the massive increases in spending on suppression.WHY? We have to ask why? After all, our very lives are at stake.
“Research, published June 7 2024 in the journal Science Advances, finds that inhaling the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 from wildland fires led to 52,500 to 55,700 deaths in the 11 years from 2008-2018, with an associated economic impact of $432 billion to $456 billion.” ~ UCLA
Can we control human behavior? Clearly that answer is easy, look at the prisons filled to the brim! Never gonna happen.
Can we control lightening? Better call Mt. Olympus and ask for Zeus on that account.
Can we control fuel? YES!
In the past decades Oregon and California had even wetter years followed by long hot summers. But we didn’t see the extreme quantities of grass and brush fuels we see across the landscape today! Why?
CALFIRE’s upper command is arguably heavily influenced by California Governor Gavin Newsom… they repeat his propaganda-narratives like a Tibetan mantra.
But, Newsom was BUSTED by The Guardian for making misrepresentations to the public!
Gavin Newsom oversold California’s fire prevention efforts. A journalist uncovered the truth
Some of Newsom’s antagonists claim he is part of the New World Order and wants to end rural America… and reduce the population in America and the world.
Assuming that is true, then Fire and Smoke are great tools for, discouraging any rural lifestyles, killing off the ‘over-population of humans’, along with stealing WATER to end farming, ranching and other rural enterprises.
The native HERBIVORY controls grass and brush… FACT
A family of wild horses provides a cost-effective fire-break and fire-resilient landscape in the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument. Photo courtesy BLM
What is the native ‘Herbivory’?
Animals like; deer, elk, bison and American wild horses have historically made-up the American native herbivory. Horses are the oldest known living species of large herbivore in north America, dating back 2-million years on the continent based upon irrefutable paleontological data.
Generally speaking, bison, deer and elk arrived in North America from Asia over the Aleutian land bridge about 200,000 years ago, about the same time horses that evolved in North America moved over that land-bridge into Asia, Africa and Europe.
Knowingly Depleting the Herbivory
There is an argument that Fish and Wildlife agencies knew they were depleting the herbivory. Some wildlife advocates believe California Dept. of Fish & Wildlife knowingly allowed hunters to over-hunt populations of deer and elk in California… and Oregon too! And the Bureau of Land Management (‘BLM’) is busy rounding up the most effective and ecologically beneficial herbivore, the American wild horse, which reseeds the native plants and grasses it eats, while mowing the vegetation to nominal levels.
There are now less than 80,000 wild horses left in all of America. In fact, over the last century, America has lost 100-million of its native herbivores combined. Over the past five centuries, humans have decimated the north American herbivory and there is a cost for that; extensive-excessive grass and brush that is now feeding wildfires during a hotter climate cycle. During that period humans took the population of bison down from 50-60-million animals to less than 1,000 in this decade. And American wild horses went from an estimated 20-million to the scant 80,000 the Bureau of Land Management claims we have today. However, many independent scholars believe there are less than 40,000 wild horses remaining wild and free. In the early 1900’s American wild horse populations were documented as being down to about 3-million wild horses in North America.
Now, because there’s 1.5-million less deer and elk in CA than there were 50-years ago, there’s over 2.2-million tons of ungrazed annual grass and brush across the landscape, just in California! (each deer eats 1.3-ton of grass & brush per year) And that’s a lot of wildfire fuel folks!
Arguably the agencies KNOW IT… THEY WON’T Discuss It!
America’s New Wildfire Risk Goes Beyond Forests
“Grassland and shrubland fires burn more land and destroy more homes across the United States than forest fires, a new study found.”
We’re burning, but is ANYONE Learning?
BURNING BUT NOT LEARNING? https://pitchstonewaters.com/burning-but-not-learning/
There is a WAY to Reduce wildfire fuels virtually free of cost and without risk.
Learn More Here... AND SHARE: https://www.kolotv.com/video/2024/06/13/could-wild-horses-help-prevent-wildfires-one-non-profit-is-making-it-happen/
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