"Fire management in Victoria amounts to de facto native logging industry, conservationists say. On Thursday conservationists and the Victorian National Parks Association expressed shock after discovering a dead greater glider in an area where trees had been felled by FFMV."
"Logging in Victoria’s native forests ended at the beginning of this year but Prof David Lindenmayer, a forest ecologist at Australian National University, said: “There’s a de facto logging industry now emerging under the guise of fire suppression.“To me, when you cut down big trees and put them on a truck and take them to a sawmill … that is logging.”"
@ai6yr My neighborhood is in the wildland urban interface (WUI) east of Seattle and the suburban cities. A potential nearby death trap here is a large creek with very few bridges. I have been trading email with the county urging them to speed up the planning process for using a local 'fire road' (unmaintained county right-of-way with locked gate) to help spread out evacuation traffic to a lightly used bridge. I am sending this article to my county contact. #PNW#Wildfire#FireManagement
Voracious goats are a more eco-friendly and efficient alternative to removing flammable weeds from steep hillsides, especially for habitat restoration.
These bleating firefighters have an insatiable appetite for wildfire fuel — weeds (www.latimes.com)
Voracious goats are a more eco-friendly and efficient alternative to removing flammable weeds from steep hillsides, especially for habitat restoration.