Excellent videos on your channel! Good balance of video, images, and charts/drawings. Well written scripts, also. Thank you making videos on these subjects. Unique as well as informative. Best wishes!
surprised that you didn't mention traditional ways of forest management! prescribed burns have been used for thousands of years long before national parks existed
I worked for the Colorado State Forest Service for about 3 years back in the day. Colorado's biggest problem is the pine Beatle infestation. Pine Trees need lots and lots of water to produce sap to protect them selves. The sap pushes the Beatle out of the tree. No water, no sap. Colorado has bin in a drought for years. Secondly the more stressed a tree is the more likely of infestation. (yes trees can get stressed) Lastly pine trees need cold long winters to kill off the pine beetles. Colorado on average has had wormer and shorter winters. When you add this to Colorado's Governments horrible police of don't let it burn. You get thousands and thousands acers of forest that are littered with dead or dyeing trees (on the ground and still standing). When these forest do catch fire, and they will (and have) they burn so damn hot, the heat kills everything, Pine cone seeds everything under ground up to 16". What I'm trying to say is nothing grows back after a fire. Unless we come though and plant things ourselves.
Lightning plays an outsized role in wildfires: More than 40% of wildfires in the West, largely in places other than California, were caused by lightning, and those fires accounted for more than 70% of the acreage burned between 1992 and 2015, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
you forgot the part where all the bureaucratic red tape is making it impossible to keep up with the number of prescribed burns that are needed to improve the forest environment.
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your channel is severely underrated
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Excellent videos on your channel! Good balance of video, images, and charts/drawings. Well written scripts, also.
Thank you making videos on these subjects. Unique as well as informative. Best wishes!
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Keep up the great videos you are well underrated !
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surprised that you didn't mention traditional ways of forest management! prescribed burns have been used for thousands of years long before national parks existed
I worked for the Colorado State Forest Service for about 3 years back in the day. Colorado's biggest problem is the pine Beatle infestation. Pine Trees need lots and lots of water to produce sap to protect them selves. The sap pushes the Beatle out of the tree. No water, no sap. Colorado has bin in a drought for years. Secondly the more stressed a tree is the more likely of infestation. (yes trees can get stressed) Lastly pine trees need cold long winters to kill off the pine beetles. Colorado on average has had wormer and shorter winters. When you add this to Colorado's Governments horrible police of don't let it burn. You get thousands and thousands acers of forest that are littered with dead or dyeing trees (on the ground and still standing). When these forest do catch fire, and they will (and have) they burn so damn hot, the heat kills everything, Pine cone seeds everything under ground up to 16". What I'm trying to say is nothing grows back after a fire. Unless we come though and plant things ourselves.
Lightning plays an outsized role in wildfires: More than 40% of wildfires in the West, largely in places other than California, were caused by lightning, and those fires accounted for more than 70% of the acreage burned between 1992 and 2015, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
you forgot the part where all the bureaucratic red tape is making it impossible to keep up with the number of prescribed burns that are needed to improve the forest environment.
HOW TO PREVENT DISASTERS- BOOK 41- AMAZON. There are far better ways