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California wildfire expands as effects of heatwave linger
The Beckwourth Complex Fire crossed the state line from California into Nevada on Sunday, expanding by some 20,000 acres and destroying around 20 homes. The largest U.S. wildfire of 2021 so far, the blaze is only 8 percent contained and now covers more than 80,000 acres, comprising around a tenth of the 768,000 acres currently burning in the western United States. Many of the wildfires now burning there and in Canada began during the intense heatwave of late June and early July. Cooler temperatures are forecast for the coming week, and firefighters expect to make more progress then. [NBC News, Axios]
The Beckwourth Complex Fire crossed the state line from California into Nevada on Sunday, expanding by some 20,000 acres and destroying around 20 homes. The largest U.S. wildfire of 2021 so far, the blaze is only 8 percent contained and now covers more than 80,000 acres, comprising around a tenth of the 768,000 acres currently burning in the western United States. Many of the wildfires now burning there and in Canada began during the intense heatwave of late June and early July. Cooler temperatures are forecast for the coming week, and firefighters expect to make more progress then. [NBC News, Axios]
Wildfires rage across over 1 million acres in American West and Canada
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SPC Michael Terrell
Sgt Jim Belanus - The fools won't allow anything to mitigate future fires. Logging and replanting is good forest management. Clearing underbrush with controlled burns, and maintaining fire breaks also helps. I live with part of a national forest touching my back fence
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Sgt Jim Belanus
my old oversea roomate lives in Eurika, I have been there a number of times and can see the scope of their fire problems.
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PO1 Kevin Dougherty
We were talking about this as a future problem when I was studying forestry more years ago than I care to think about. How the USDA and state focus on aggressive suppression, limiting of controlled burns, couple with rapidly expanding urban/wilderness interfaces was a recipe for disaster. Of course now it's a question of global climate change, because it can't possible be the result of decades of mismanagement for political gain.
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Saw a two minute news share on this one earlier this morning Lt Col Charlie Brown , firefighters have a lot of sleepless nights ahead of them ma'am.
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La-La-Land produces some of the dumbest public servants in the world. So much misery and economic pain could be avoided by practicing sound management of the stat’s natural resources, especially its timber and water. Long-suffering taxpayers are fleeing the state by the hundreds of thousands, shrinking the tax base and compelling politicians to beg Washington for relief. Those idiots will happily spread the pain to the rest of us, so that we all pay the price of their mismanagement.
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CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana
This is called political and bureaucratic corruption, both CPT Jack Durish and 1LT Voyle Smith.
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PO1 Kevin Dougherty
The water issue is, to a large extent simply that the land can not support the numbers of people living there. They should have thought about desalinization and water recycling decades ago, but of course both of those are expensive.
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