... As the Trump administration continues its campaign to slash the federal workforce, more than 700 year-round National Park Service employees have taken buyouts, according to an internal email sent to supervisors late last week.
That brings to at least 1,700 the number of year-round permanent staff members that the service — arguably America's most beloved federal agency — has lost this month. The number equates to roughly 9% of the agency's workforce.
In addition, remaining staff members have been banned from traveling for work purposes — unless it’s to support national security or immigration enforcement — and some staffers have found that the credit cards they use to purchase gas for service vehicles and basic supplies such as toilet paper for the restrooms have been deactivated, according to interviews with Park Service employees and internal documents shared with The Times. It's not clear how long those measures will be in place....
Preventing devastating wildfires is a laudable goal, but in my experience this means logging, logging and more logging. Watch. Ironically, this leads to MORE fires due to increased human activity on new roads.
Yep. Leaving all that forest debris to become fuels has worked out well.
Yep. Aggressively fighting all fires such that forest debris build up has worked out well.
Yep. Punching in roads everywhere so that fire-causing humans have unlimited access has worked out well.
You've been sold a bill of goods, again. Irl it's never about "debris" removal. If so, they would leave the healthy, mature, fire resistant and profitable trees while clearing out the rest. Good luck finding a project where that's done.
Yep. Leaving all that forest debris to become fuels has worked out well.
Yep. Aggressively fighting all fires such that forest debris build up has worked out well.
Yep. Punching in roads everywhere so that fire-causing humans have unlimited access has worked out well.
You've been sold a bill of goods, again. Irl it's never about "debris" removal. If so, they would leave the healthy, mature, fire resistant and profitable trees while clearing out the rest. Good luck finding a project where that's done.
Since he evidently believes trump's nonsense about cleaning the forests, I'm pretty sure he also believes the 2020 election was rigged and that US tariffs on China and other countries are paid by those other countries. trump has been bleating those lies for years.....certainly long enough to allow the repetition of the lies to make them somehow true. Hilarious
Since he evidently believes trump's nonsense about cleaning the forests, I'm pretty sure he also believes the 2020 election was rigged and that US tariffs on China and other countries are paid by those other countries. trump has been bleating those lies for years.....certainly long enough to allow the repetition of the lies to make them somehow true. Hilarious
I remember when Dolt .45 spewed nonsense about the Finns raking their forests. The Finns responded with, "What??!!" but SoupySales must have missed it.
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Yep. Allowing development right to the edge of fire-prone woods and brush has worked out well.
I always knew with my father's Pacific Palisades town/house condo that it was a matter of when, not if. It served him well for the 15 or so years before his death, and others for another 30 years after that. I wouldn't have bet on it lasting that long.
So in 1943, some loggers saw what now is considered one of the largest Redwoods ever in Mendocino County CA. It was over 300 feet tall, estimated to be more than 1700 years old, and 21 feet diameter at the base. "Oh boy", they said, "let's cut this mother down. We'll send the re-forestation people over and they'll sprout a new one. Nobody will miss this one."
So now, Only 5% of California's original old-growth redwood forests remain. The remaining forests are mostly second-growth, which are unhealthy and overgrown, and home to threatened and endangered species.
Referring to Qanon reminds me - has anybody ever identified, outed, lynched or whatever any person confirmed to be a member of the "deep state"? Seems if they could find some, they'd brag about it. As far as I know, they haven't even tried to lie about finding anybody. But then, if you've created a boogie-man out of nothing but fear, it's probably better to keep in in imagination.
It is clear Vrede has missed all the reforestation that goes with logging.
It is clear that SoupySales is talking out of his ignorant, dogmatic ass to someone who has actually been a tree planter.
Being a former tree planter are you saying reforestation is not beneficial?
It's better than nothing, but it takes years or decades to prevent fires, may not do so at all if it's the usual monoculture, and does not justify the impacts of habitat disturbance, road building and clearcutting.
Referring to Qanon reminds me - has anybody ever identified, outed, lynched or whatever any person confirmed to be a member of the "deep state"? Seems if they could find some, they'd brag about it. As far as I know, they haven't even tried to lie about finding anybody. But then, if you've created a boogie-man out of nothing but fear, it's probably better to keep in in imagination.
Since he evidently believes trump's nonsense about cleaning the forests, I'm pretty sure he also believes the 2020 election was rigged and that US tariffs on China and other countries are paid by those other countries. trump has been bleating those lies for years.....certainly long enough to allow the repetition of the lies to make them somehow true. Hilarious
