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According to The Missoulian (archive):
Several of Missoula's top federal fire scientists have been denied permission to attend the International Fire Congress later this month, leading conference organizers to suspect censorship of climate-related research.
"Anyone who has anything related to climate-change research — right away was rejected," said Timothy Ingalsbee of the Association for Fire Ecology, a nonprofit group putting on the gathering. Ingalsbee noted that was his personal opinion, and that the AFE [Association for Fire Ecology] is concerned that a federal travel restriction policy may be more to blame.
The Missoulian also said (archive):
The scientists no longer attending include Matt Jolly, who was to present new work on "Climate-induced variations in global severe weather fire conditions," Karin Riley on "Fuel treatment effects at the landscape level: burn probabilities, flame lengths and fire suppression costs," Mike Battaglia on "Adaptive silviculture for climate change: Preparing dry mixed conifer forests for a more frequent fire regime," and Dave Calkin, who was working on ways to manage the human response to wildfire.
takyon: Also at Scientific American (thanks to another Anonymous Coward).
(Score: 5, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Monday November 13 2017, @02:55AM (4 children)
You're right, they have the same problem in Australia where the eucalyptus forest actually needs fire to seed properly.
People have moved into the bush however, in their lifestyle blocks and so the fire service is obliged to put the fires out.
It's a real problem.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday November 13 2017, @03:39AM (2 children)
In Florida there are increasing areas of prescribed burns, keeping the (semi)native pine trees happy, the way they were 300 years ago. The sand pine needs fire to release its seed, and almost all pines are more fire resistant than their competition, so it gives them a competitive advantage.
Still, not highly compatible with houses, so you don't see a lot of pine forest around the homes, mostly oak with tinderbox undergrowth... keeps the firefighters on their toes.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday November 13 2017, @04:21AM (1 child)
Driving down to Florida, I noticed long swaths of forested areas that could have used some fire breaks.
Waiting for God's smiting hand!?!
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday November 13 2017, @04:42AM
We have plenty of firebreaks, we call them highways.
Before European settlement, a single lightning strike could start a statewide blaze, and apparently they were frequent. Pines are very fire adapted, and with regular burns, they will survive a fire. However, if you let the fuel load build up for 30 years before a burn happens, then not even pines can survive a burn that hot.
If you want to see firebreaks, drive through the Ocala National tree farm (yes, officially a forest, but actually feedstock for the lumber industry grown and maintained using federal tax dollars.) They take them pretty seriously there. Forest management varies pretty significantly by owner, most private owners seem to try to maximize yield from their land - either from harvest or loss-recovery insurance payout.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @08:49AM
Solution: stop monitoring it, end all research into it, MAGA.