learning as much as i can about wildfires. prescribed burns are a prevention tactic to reduce the buildup of vegetation that could serve as fire fuel.

it takes an avg of 4.7 yrs for a prescribed burn to get through environmental reviews. 

80M acres need urgent treatment — that means now, not in 5 years. maddening!

This tweet was super enlightening about the issue: https://x.com/isaiah_p_taylor/status/1877049594313314525

Basically, there have been attempts to solve this issue, but certain groups have fought those attempts tooth & nail and been successful.

@isaiah_p_taylor is that true? i’ve heard people saying that environmentalists oppose controlled burning but haven’t checked.

@isabelleboemeke Unfortunately yes. In 2007 the Sierra Club successfully sued the Forest Service to prevent them from creating a Categorical Exclusion (CE) to NEPA for controlled burns (the technical term is "fuel reduction"). The CE would have allowed the forest service to conduct burns without…

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