Reducing catastrophic wildfire and toxic smoke is a bipartisan issue. It must NOT be politicized or subject to money grubbers who waste tax dollars, while we continue to lose what’s left of our forests, watersheds and wildlife.
With the new and improved Trump Administration coming into power, the funding of FAKE SOLUTIONS for wildfire and toxic smoke that are driven by narratives and not science will likely come to an end. The Grift is Over assuming Trump carries-out what he has promised. And as a taxpayer, I am glad for that.
RxFire, Prescribed Fire and Cultural Burning DO NOT SCALE-UP as a genuine fuels management tool to address the annual need of the hundreds of millions of remote wild-land acreages that are choked with annual grass and brush wildfire fuels. According to a study by Yale, 66% of all wildfires have grass and brush as the key fuels. In the McKinney Fire (Siskiyou County), primary fuels were ‘grass and brush’:
The resulting excessive grasses and brush are the undeniable result of our collapsed native species herbivory (deer, elk, horses). These fuels cause wildfires today to burn abnormally HOT. And the notion that ‘pre-burn-treatment’ is needed prior to RxFire is more money-grifting nonsense that also won’t scale.
In the Bootleg Fire we learned that all the work and money spent on combined ‘treatments’ by the environmental justice warriors had relatively little effect, as we read here: https://lpfw.org/oregons-bootleg-fire-grew-rapidly-in-areas-subject-to-logging-and-other-management-activities/
In the end, Green Diamond Resource Company lost a lot of timber-forest in that fire, and it’s hard to sell carbon sequestration investments in an incinerated forest. The obtuse reduction of the beneficial horses in that area from mismanagement of natural resource/wildlife led to that fire, and Green Diamond paid some of the price. The question is, we keep burning, but is anyone learning?
These so-called tools (RxFire, mulching, mowing, etc) have at-best niche applications, and come with great costs and risks. The cost to benefit ratio for RxFire is proven, based on empirical data, to be far from optimal. And when thousands of homes are destroyed from RxFire going out of control, as seen in numerous locations, and notably, twice at large scale in New Mexico, the smallish alleged theoretical benefits are quickly undone!
Prescribed fire became uncontrolled fire developed into the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire. Hundreds of structures were damaged or destroyed. The Southwest Coordination Center says 899 structures were destroyed in the fire, and a further 84 damaged. Governor of New Mexico Michelle Lujan Grisham said on May 17 that although she lacked hard figures, the number of homes/structures destroyed could be between 1,000 and 1,500.[27]
More about RxFire here: https://californiaglobe.com/fr/is-prescribed-burning-oversold/
The ONLY solution that is scaleable onto 100-million+ acres in western states is the combined herbivory model for ongoing cost-effective wildfire fuels management, which our Org has proven (documented during the Klamathon Fire) works, and is supported by numerous peer-reviewed published scientific studies along with empirical results.
Even the WEF is coming to it’s senses, since a world burned to the dirt is of no use to anyone:
1) https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/12/climate-change-wildfires-biodiversity/
2) https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/11/herbivores-helping-to-save-forests/
The National Institute of Health ‘NIH’ covered the news about our proven herbivory model.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/17511
President-elect Donald Trump will hear about our model through his advisors and from his son Donnie Trump Jr. That’s because our Org’s president, Deb Ferns hunted & camped with Donnie Jr. in Africa this past summer, and Donnie promised Deb that if his father was elected, he’d hear about our novel cost-effective plan to address wildfire fuels.
Many American are hopeful that a new era is coming and more of the same-old tired and failed waste of tax dollars will end, which will help cut the budget, as stated by Elon Musk. Funding failure is obtuse and is no longer an option.
The team at the Kennedy MAHA ‘Peoples Nominations’ have both Robert Kennedy’s ear and President-elect Trump’s ear.
There will be repercussions for those who are stonewalling good ideas (Trump’s new team favors innovators), in favor of doing what has been, and is an ongoing failure in regard to preventing and reducing catastrophic wildfire and toxic smoke… that is what leftists do… they perpetuate failure (communist style shovel-ready work).
Trump and Elon Musk won’t stand for more of that bad fiscal behavior. Trump sees this as his legacy, and he seems serious about Making America Great Again.
Nominations are closed at Kennedy MAHA but the voting is still Open for existing nominees, of which I am one.
I am currently ranked 6th place for all jobs in the ‘Environment & Natural Resources’ category.
That said, I am the only nominee seeking appointment as the ‘Director of the BLM Wild Horse & Burro Program‘, for which I am qualified.
Standings based on Voting can be seen here: https://discourse.nomineesforthepeople.com/c/environmental/5/l/latest?order=votes
Looking forward to making America Great Again.
Regards, William
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