A Shot in the Bark by C.A. Newsome7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Nearly half the state is owned by the federal government. Department of Agriculture to conduct cooperative forest management. ![]() ![]() While high-intensity blazes primarily grow on federally mismanaged lands, state agencies still play critical roles in fire prevention efforts with Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) agreements with the U.S. Forest Service has culminated in the build-up of wood fuel powering the megafires seen today. More than 100 years of fire suppression by the U.S. While Democrats and their allies in legacy media knee-jerk blame climate change, the true culprit is negligent land management. Yet the crisis was just as predictable as it was preventable. ![]() “This is going to take a long time to come back from.” Indeed, nearly half of Lassen Volcanic National Park has been burned by the Dixie Fire. “We are seeing generational destruction of forests because of what these fires are doing,” California’s Chief of Forestry and Fire Protection Thom Porter said last month. Another four infernos are currently blazing through northern California with more on the way sending smoke across the western United States. Together, the fires that are each less than 60 percent contained have burned upwards of 2,300 structures and nearly 1.2 million acres, according to a tracker by The New York Times. ![]()
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