Scientists at a federal laboratory in Montana that has focused on fire for decades are increasingly concerned about wildfires that spread to population centers as Americans build communities ever closer to forests https://reut.rs/3XjsY1t 1/7
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I grew up in Montana, but it has turned to a right wing nut case state. MT drank the foolish kool aid years ago and they get everything they deserve. Maybe burn the state down and start over with some common sense.
Mark Finney, senior scientist at the US Forest Service's Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, noted a pattern in January fires in California — which killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes — and recent fires elsewhere https://reut.rs/4gZbT3S 2/7
'They start in a nearby wildland vegetation, find fuel material where it ignites and spreads very rapidly and under very dry and windy conditions. It spreads quickly from a wildland situation into a more urban situation,' he said during a tour for Reuters of his lab in late January 3/7
Finney and his team set fires in a controlled environment. What they learn from such experiments about, for example, how far and fast fires can move is shared across the country and the world to help wildland fire managers make decisions when responding to fires 4/7
Finney's was one of three labs founded in the years after a 1949 fire in a remote area of the Helena National Forest in Montana killed 13 firefighters. The goal was to better understand how fire behaves to avoid such tragedies 5/7
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has halted federal funding for programs to reduce wildfire risk as part of broad cuts to government spending, according to organizations impacted by the moves https://reut.rs/41amyTa 6/7
Wait. What? Surely Trump wouldn't risk the lives of his people in order to make more cash for himself and his broligarchs. Surely!? Especially after having blamed Biden of exacerbating the fires in California a few months ago. That can't be. 🙄
It isn’t that T—-p does or doesn’t personally believe climate change is real. It’s that he doesn’t give a damn about anyone or anything except himself.
DOGE firing wildland firefighters, thinning crews, those who mitigate conditions for wildfires should be also very concerning considering that last year was a record year.
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Well, it doesn't...and in case it gets forgotten every 30 days...write it down...
**People cause forest fires**
Problem solved?...NO, because even when faced with facts, people just ignore them.