Originally Posted by cockerpunk (Post 7626164)

hate to PARF it, but there is a reason why forest fires are getting worse.

Originally Posted by Geary (Post 7628045)

I hate to see threads PARF'd, but something does seem out of the ordinary. I recall the fires up & down California in 2008, and the story that I heard only once, on the radio. Authorities had shot & killed a man that they caught starting one of those fires .. yet this HUGE story was immediately squashed. I believe most of the 2008 fires were blamed on lightning strikes.

Originally Posted by quicksix (Post 7625877)

One hundred years of fire suppression policy instead of prescribed burns.

Originally Posted by porwolf (Post 7627225)

Another reason why so many wild fires are in the news is because many more people built houses in or near wilderness. Fires make the news when homes are threatened or destroyed. With no homes in danger fire don't get the same news exposure. No fires in the news few people are aware of them.

Originally Posted by gatotom (Post 7626242)

Well, after living the last 30 plus yrs in the mtns, yes, fires have increased.

My take on the subject:

Logging has become extinct, got to save the owls or whatever.
Since no more logging no more land management which leads to over growth of the woods.
no more land management also leads to more bug infestation which leads to more dead trees in the woods.
More dead trees give the natural lightning more fuel to burn.
More forest fires.

Does Europe have as many forest fires as USA??? probably not because they are active on land management with thinning of the woods almost to the point that makes them like parks.

In my eyes it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the problem, now we have to convince those environmentalists which leads us back to the good old political system where the problem started in the first place.

Originally Posted by RWebb (Post 7628885)

Yes, we have the same problem on the coast. RIch morons build or buy a house built, literally on sand. Then they want the taxpayers to pay for their house when storms undermine the cliff it sits on, or bury it in the sand.

Originally Posted by Por_sha911 (Post 7628860)

+1

The sad part is these same idiots that built in the middle of a wilderness cry when their house burns down. Worse yet, they want the govt (firefighters) and the ins company to spend millions bail them out for their stupidity. I say, if you built in a forest in the middle of nowhere, you're on your own. That's the price you pay for having a cool home to brag about at the office in the city.