Tuesday, September 18, 2018

US Forest Fires Ignored


The media is ignoring the US forest fire fest that has been raging in the West all year.  The internet includes unhelpful websites that don’t allow viewers to comprehend the damage. Only one website reports year-to-date totals is:

More than half the woods and forest in the United States (441 million acres) mostly located in the east is owned and managed by some 11 million private ownerships. Of those, 95 percent are classified as “Family and Individual” ownerships, 4 percent are classified as “Corporate” ownerships, and 1 percent is classified as “Other Private” ownerships.

As of 9/11/18, since 1/1/18, 8,131,216 acres, mostly on US federal land, have been lost to the 2018 forest fires in all States.  An additional 1,399,806 acres are being consumed by 84 fires that are now burning. 2018 will surpass the record set in 2015 when 8.6 million acres burned.

These forests are mismanaged by the US Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service. Extinguishing these annual forest fires costs $2 billion a year.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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