‘Everything was orange’: US wildfires burning at furious pace early this year

[BidenPresident]

Extreme conditions have fueled an explosive start to what’s expected to be yet another intense season of big blazes, with months to go before wildfire threats typically peak across the west.

Wildfires have charred close to 1.3m acres nationwide this year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), outpacing the 10-year average for this time of year by more than 71%. Predictions for the rest of the spring do not bode well for the west, with the drought and warmer weather brought on by the climate crisis worsening wildfire danger.

Fire officials said there was not much they could do in recent days to stop the fast-moving flames burning in tinder-dry forests in the Sangre de Christo range. Fueled by overgrown mountainsides covered with ponderosa pine and other trees sucked dry of moisture over decades, the fire had burned across more than 270,440 acres – an area bigger than the city of Dallas, Texas – by Friday morning and was 30% contained.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ires-california-new-mexico-burning-early-2022

 

[Matt Dillon]

Extreme conditions have fueled an explosive start to what’s expected to be yet another intense season of big blazes, with months to go before wildfire threats typically peak across the west.

Wildfires have charred close to 1.3m acres nationwide this year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), outpacing the 10-year average for this time of year by more than 71%. Predictions for the rest of the spring do not bode well for the west, with the drought and warmer weather brought on by the climate crisis worsening wildfire danger.

Fire officials said there was not much they could do in recent days to stop the fast-moving flames burning in tinder-dry forests in the Sangre de Christo range. Fueled by overgrown mountainsides covered with ponderosa pine and other trees sucked dry of moisture over decades, the fire had burned across more than 270,440 acres – an area bigger than the city of Dallas, Texas – by Friday morning and was 30% contained.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ires-california-new-mexico-burning-early-2022

IN...California, no?

30 years overdue for forestry management and they're shocked when everything goes up in flames. Tards.

They can thank the tree-huggers for all that.

"Oh! You can't cut down this scrub pine that's all ate up with Beetle Borers! Trees have feelings!"

Fuckin' idiots. They needed a firebreak cut, but the derfwads didn't want it and the state didn't do it.

And here we are today, with fucktardedness and the whole thing burning down.

Also that's lost timber for the Federal government. It's sickening the way it all really happens.

They don't care about you..or the trees or the wildlife.

They do care about the timber money. Maybe they should have groomed the west's forests better, because they're getting losses on that now, and personally, IDGAF.

I've seen the devastation the government did in my favorite piece of management land. They fucking raped it to the max. Destroyed shit tons of old oak trees just to get the shitty pines they wanted. It's all a big scam. Taxpayers pay for it and they harvest timber worth billions of dollars. Like they cared about the wildlife when they razed everyhting for 100 acres or more, the motherfuckers.

It's all a scam. The American woods should belong to the people, Indian and everybody, and everybody should get a cut when they raze it all to sell to like Georgia-Pacific. (IF the people allow them to do that) True Story.

Exactly how did they "conserve" that bear and deer and coon habitat when they razed every fucking thing around for miles? They didn't give 2 shits about the wildlife. There's money in that pine, though, and they'll take out

any tree in and any critter in

the way to get to it. They don't give a fuck about wildlife or forests. It's all about money. True Story.

That's something it took me a couple decades to find out.

National forests don't belong to you, and the government is not trying to conserve them.

They are there for the government to harvest pine timber, And they don't give ary a shit about what wildlife or water supplies or non-target vegetation they fuck up in the process.

That's the reality of the national forest program.

I know I never mentioned that before, but it's disgusting.

 

[Lightbringer]

Gotta admit when I saw "orange" in the thread title I thought this was going to be a TDS thread.