Thank god for this: "There are also environmental exemptions for fire projects under 10,000 acres, reducing the chance for litigation for fire breaks and prescribed burns."
Well, in Emergency Management all incidents start and end at the local level.
While I support many of the proposed initiatives, the technical inaccuracies that have bubbled out of this latest debate around the LA fires have been astonishing.
Fuels management, for example, has received little or no attention whatsoever. The endless babble about water totally overlooks the main issue that caused it in the first place....Hazard Mitigation.
PS - A certain percentage of these things are going to fail to open and disperse (just like cluster munitions failing to detonate on impact). Someone is going to get killed.
The BLM has already been moved out of 'DC to Grand Junction, CO; why not combine the two agencies there (option 1) or locate the USFS at Colorado Springs, near the air base.
In either case, reduce the WO USFS in size, along with the reduction of the number of Regional Offices to no more than three.
Great update, I think I’m in support of everything you mentioned and seems to be on the right track besides the card board box bombs, what a waste of time that will never actually work, not to mention the amount of garbage on the ground and hazards it will create. WHAT IF THEY MISS AND HIT PEOPLE??just silly… There’s plenty of wildfire aircraft out there, put them on year round national contracts to surge around the nation and be done with it.
Giving jumpers an aerial water delivery system almost had me, but if we’re talking about getting bigger military aircraft anyways why don’t we just send a load of 20 type 1 firefighters out the back of C130 wildfire converted tanker and have best of all worlds. Just dreaming here.
Thank god for this: "There are also environmental exemptions for fire projects under 10,000 acres, reducing the chance for litigation for fire breaks and prescribed burns."
Well, in Emergency Management all incidents start and end at the local level.
While I support many of the proposed initiatives, the technical inaccuracies that have bubbled out of this latest debate around the LA fires have been astonishing.
Fuels management, for example, has received little or no attention whatsoever. The endless babble about water totally overlooks the main issue that caused it in the first place....Hazard Mitigation.
PS - A certain percentage of these things are going to fail to open and disperse (just like cluster munitions failing to detonate on impact). Someone is going to get killed.
Have a look at this:https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA424832.pdf
I’ll read this through.
The BLM has already been moved out of 'DC to Grand Junction, CO; why not combine the two agencies there (option 1) or locate the USFS at Colorado Springs, near the air base.
In either case, reduce the WO USFS in size, along with the reduction of the number of Regional Offices to no more than three.
Great update, I think I’m in support of everything you mentioned and seems to be on the right track besides the card board box bombs, what a waste of time that will never actually work, not to mention the amount of garbage on the ground and hazards it will create. WHAT IF THEY MISS AND HIT PEOPLE??just silly… There’s plenty of wildfire aircraft out there, put them on year round national contracts to surge around the nation and be done with it.
Giving jumpers an aerial water delivery system almost had me, but if we’re talking about getting bigger military aircraft anyways why don’t we just send a load of 20 type 1 firefighters out the back of C130 wildfire converted tanker and have best of all worlds. Just dreaming here.