BLM Fire Breaks

Jagerdad · Feb 17, 2020

BLM may make 11,000 miles of Fire Breaks:

BLM releases final plan to construct and maintain up to 11,000 miles of fuel breaks in the Great Basin to combat wildfires | Bureau of Land Management

www.blm.gov

BLM's Main page:

Home | Bureau of Land Management

www.blm.gov

What's your thoughts..? Good, Bad, Poor use of $$$ ???

Jagerdad

Bluehair · Feb 17, 2020

The forest circus is doing that down in AZ right now. Munching up fuels along side existing roads with a machine mounted grinding head. Think of a giant roto tiller.

I prefer mechanical eradication to chemical. Call me paranoid about poison and the impacts we won't understand for years. Fire makes alot of sense so the firefighters can stay busy in the off season, but I look forward to what the fire dudes think.

Like it or not, there is an economic argument in support of protecting private property. Not to mention morality.

Jagerdad · Feb 17, 2020

On the first link, has anyone noticed the ATTACHMENTS down on the Lower Right...???

Bluehair, I suspect you have a high IQ so I went back and after a few tries, I copied the Attachments section.

I shall Try to Paste here:
ATTACHMENTS

There is always a $$$$ item attached to Gov's and Employees. Like Kaiser Hospital, they place a $$$ attached to each Patient and Insured Person via % invested coupled with, Return. Its a bad saga insofar as where we are and, where we are going.

Hugs
Jagerdad

Bluehair · Feb 18, 2020

Jagerdad said:
Bluehair, I suspect you have a high IQ so .....Hugs
Jagerdad

Sorry, you got the wrong guy. Mile wide and an inch deep and regressing every day. Currently in my second toddler phase. I sleep like one, dress like one, eat like one , and seem to need potty training again.

Lil_Fish · Feb 20, 2020

I have seen breaks work and breaks not work (used to be a wildland firefighter). If the breaks are up kept (annual grass kept out of the breaks) they will slow down enough the firefighters can usually get control of the fire. The only extremely good fire break is bare soil (brown stripping) and that is not good habitat for much of anything. The strips cost money to put in and maintain. With spending billions of dollars on fires I hope implementing these breaks and maintaining them are worth it.