Tag: forest fires
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Wise Fires Prevent Wild Fires
by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2025 (Jun. 17, 2025) — The American West is no longer endless spans of unused prairies and forests. It has grown to become home to millions of Americans where prairies have been tilled into farmlands, and forests have been largely cut down to provide wood to build those homes.…
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Preventing Future Forest Infernos
by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Nov. 22, 2020) — The 2020 fire season is nearing its end. But monstrous wildfires continue to rage across America’s western states, devastating towns and habitats, and killing hundreds of people and millions of animals. Politicians and environmentalists continue to rage that climate change is the primary factor, allowing few responsible,…
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Trump was Right about “Raking” Finnish Forests
HEAVY MACHINERY “RAKES” FINLAND’S FOREST FLOORS AFTER TREE-CUTTING, GREATLY REDUCING FIRE RISKS by Mikko Paunio, ©2018 (Dec. 11, 2018) — President Donald Trump was recently ridiculed for telling California Governor Jerry Brown that the Golden State should do as my country does. Trump critics laughed at what some called his “bizarre” claim that foresters in…
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Finally, Some Commonsense Western Fire Policies
NEW DOI AND DOA POLICY TO CUT OVERGROWN, DISEASED, DEAD AND BURNED TREES IS LONG OVERDUE by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Sep. 17, 2017) — President Trump promised to bring fresh ideas and policies to Washington. Now Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue are doing exactly that in a critically important area: forest…
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Destructive Forest Fires are Due to – WHAT?
CLIMATE CHANGE IS ALL-PURPOSE EXCUSE FOR BIG GREEN AND FEDERAL MISFEASANCE AND MALFEASANCE by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Jul. 30, 2016) — First the Obama EPA came for coal mines, coal-fired power plants, miners, workers, investors, and all who depend on reliable, affordable electricity. Then the EPA, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service and other agencies came…
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Climate Change Issues for 2012
DOES “GLOBAL WARMING” EVEN EXIST? by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Nov. 3, 2012) — [Author’s Note: Over the past several months people have asked CFACT a number of questions about climate change, energy and the environment. We responded to them, and then decided to compile their questions and our answers into two 6-page documents that present…