How The Smokey Bear Effect Led To Raging Wildfires

[Quixote1818]

[OnDoutside]

1. Thanks, that's an interesting perspective.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Great piece. nt

[Rural_Progressive]

3. I live in wildfire country up in north central WA

My sweetie and I recently attended a presentation put on by Dr. Paul Hessburg who has been studying forest ecology in relationship to the changes in wild fire frequency and severity for over 30 years. Here is a link to a mulitmedia work his group created entitled "Era of Megafires"

https://www.north40productions.com/eom-home/

The basic take home message of the clip in this thread and and the Era of Megafires presentation is summede summed up in the old Fram oil filter commercial.

To paraphrase "We can put up with the smoke and inconvenience of prescribed burns in the spring and fall or we can deal with the living hell of out of control Megafires in the summer. The choice is ours"