The hits keep on coming. Now Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, touring the fire ravaged West, announces a new Administration policy to actively manage government forests to reduce the fuel load and increase species diversity. See the Washington Times article.
Without disparaging climate change issues, he says forest management is something we know how to do. We have refrained from doing it at the behest of radical (my adjective, not his) environmentalists who see anything humans do as a regrettable environmental disaster.
I’ve seen the National Park Service do this fuel-load reduction in the vicinity of human-built facilities within two national parks in WY, and it makes obvious intuitive sense.
