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Mon May 19, 2025, 11:47 AM

May 19

Fix Our Forests Act Doesn’t Fix Forests
George Wuerthner
May 6, 2025

Senators Curtis, Hickenlooper, Padilla, and Sheehy introduced Senate 1462 Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA) legislation. Similar legislation has already passed the House of Representatives.

FOFA is a solution looking for a problem. Unfortunately, our forests do not have problems; even if they did, FOFA would not fix them.

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The idea that logging and prescribed burns can prevent large blazes is analogous to the belief that removing “bad blood” in the Middle Ages could cure illness.

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The most significant factor in large, high-severity blazes is wind. And wind drives embers over, around, and through logged forests and over prescribed burns. I’ve seen multiple places where wind-driven blazes have jumped across places with limited fuel, like 16-lane highways (no fuel) or even the mile-and-a-half-wide Columbia River. The only “fuel break” I’ve ever seen that stopped a wind-driven wildfire is the Pacific Ocean, which halted the westward advance of the Pacific Palisades blaze.

A lot more at link:

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2025/05/06/fix-our-forests-act-doesnt-fix-forests/

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