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profdant139
Explorer II
Jul 20, 2018

Will summer in the Far West be smoky forever??

Before the bark beetle hit the West so powerfully, we would go on one or two boondocking trips per summer, mostly in the highest parts of the Sierra, mostly to escape the heat. This was in the 2005 t...
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Tvov
Explorer II
Jul 26, 2018
I keep reading about wildfires having to "burn off old fuel", all the underbrush and debris on the forest floor. I have been reading about that for decades, at least 30 years.

How long will it take? Back in about the early '80s, firefighting efforts were reduced to allow more "natural" wildfires to burn off fuel. This was back about the time of the massive fires in Yellowstone (might have been Yosemite? It was a big national park). The firefighters intentionally let sections burn. Has it worked?

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