They're burnin' up California !! a call to resound

So yeah did you hear about the homegrown terrorist act of 2007, that was passed very hushidly in Congress the same week as all the fires were so all over the news, everywhere, in your face, nonstop in october of 2007(and again in 2008, and they just magically started again here in 2009). Check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxEiOrqNHHs

It's kind of a long video but it's worth watching all the way through. They're destroying California the fuckers!! But only to mask the fact that they are only using Cal-lee -for-nia as a decoy to sink the ship called america.
So my friends were out in the woods (which is a very common occurance for them) last year and came upon some military personnel starting fires up in Trinity and tried to ask them a question and the military dudes, stoney faced, straight up siad they didn't have to answer any of my friends questions and told em to leave !!! It was common knoledge round here (northern cali) last summer the fires were being set towards the end of the season...and only until people started getting real pissed off in the papers about alll the "backburns" that chocked our city streets for MONTHS and in the hottest of summers did they finally, magacially, one day all of a sudden cease. It was like holy shit thank God can finally breath again. I mean literally so bad some days you can't see across the parking lot to the road, i mean can hear the cars drving by, but just can't see em, wtf.
That was kind of a long rant but worth reading all the way through, and i'll tell you what, the Sasquatch's ain't all the happy about this either .

 

but there's always somethin, eh

 

You know, sometimes when they have a wild fire problem they'll make controlled fires so that it won't spread so bad. Could that have been what was happening?

 

Nothing "magical" about it. It was arson each of those times.

Who is "they"? The arsonists?

What does that have to do with forest fires?

Controlled burns are the best way to minimize the effects of catastrophic forest fires. They're necessary to counteract the well-meaning but misguided fire prevention that was practiced in the national forests for decades.

They now know that if you don't clear out the concentrated brush fuel between trees, naturally-occuring fires set by lightning will progress into high-temperature crown fires, which spread faster and are more likely to threaten populated areas. They also kill the trees.

Low-temperature ground fires don't spread as fast, and what's more important, don't destroy the trees.

The best policy in the long run would be to just leave the forests alone, and let nature take its course. If they burn, they burn. How many thousands of years have those forests been there without being "managed"? They did just fine on their own. That's what's done now in Yellowstone, and it's worked fine. The huge blackened areas from the fires of 1988 are a thing of the past, and the Yellowstone forests have come back healthier than ever.

But with populated areas nearby, you can't do that, so the controlled burn program is the next best thing.

You could say it's funny, but all these years Smokey the Bear was wrong. Fires are an important part of forest ecology. By immediately snuffing out every fire, they allowed the forests to get too thick so that when a fire did occur, it was far worse than it would have been.

They're on the right track now.

 

ye wild fires are a natural way of clearing out dead branches and bushes. There are even some trees that have evolved to survive wild fires. These fires are a natural thing that should not be managed by us.