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Forests Forever, alongside concerned citizen allies in Mendocino County, currently is playing a leading role in challenging landscape-scale hack-and-squirt forestry that has already poisoned whole watersheds full of oaks on the North Coast. Mendocino Redwood Co. (MRC) alone has killed and left standing some five million trees since 2012!
The reason MRC is poisoning trees is that oaks and other hardwoods—the target trees—can compete for water, sunlight, and nutrients with more-lucrative redwoods. It would cost extra to remove the dead trees so MRC leaves them where they stand.
But according to retired CalFIRE Air Attack Capt. Kirk Van Patten, hack-and-squirt "clearly has created a serious wildland fire threat for the firefighters and citizens of Mendocino County."
it is deemed "harmful to aquatic organisms... may cause long-term adverse effects in the aquatic environment."
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
Mary Greeley describes the hack and squirt method (also called slash and spray) for killing unwanted forest trees. California lumber companies use this practice to kill unwanted trees at 1/4 the price of cutting and clearing which eliminates the fire hazard. 2 redwood lumber companies together own over 400,000 acres in Mendocino and Sonoma counties - the very places this and last years' forest fires started.
Lives taken, homes destroyed, entire communities lost over greed. Sorry conspiracy theorists, no directed energy weapons created the California disasters, just good old-fashioned greed and a willing government that no doubt has a financial stake in those same companies.
Is it time for pitchforks and torches yet?
Sacramento is well overdue for it.
Want to see a forest ready to burn? Mendocino county by air 2015. All that gray is not rock but dead trees ready to burn.
originally posted by: tjack
Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, ever burn a dead Christmas tree? They go up like they're soaked in gasoline.
originally posted by: SocratesJohnson
When you cut down trees, I hear them scream and cry
When this is your voting base ornin this case..your protest base. how does it not surprise you that companies do not flashily cut down and deal with trees.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
originally posted by: tjack
Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, ever burn a dead Christmas tree? They go up like they're soaked in gasoline.
Every year a couple weeks after Christmas. Myself and a bunch of neighbors all get together with our dry trees and have a huge fire. They go REALLY quick.
The leaves produce a volatile highly combustible oil, and the ground beneath the trees is covered with large amounts of litter which is high in phenolics, preventing its breakdown by fungi. Wildfires burn rapidly under them and through the tree crowns.
Such operations appear to be largely unregulated because Cal Fire considers tan oak to be “a kind of weed,” Williams said.
“Unchecked by public oversight, it poses life safety risks to both residents and firefighters,” he wrote in a letter to supervisors.
The largest blaze in state history, the 410,200-acre Ranch Fire, this past summer burned on large swaths of land managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in Mendocino and nearby counties north of San Francisco.
In fact, six of California's 16 most destructive wildfires in the past 25 years — in terms of structures destroyed — occurred on federal lands, according to Cal Fire records.
In Shasta County, last summer's 229,650-acre Carr Fire started on National Park Service lands before spreading to private property and eventually into the city of Redding.
The Hirz and Delta fires also burned mostly Forest Service lands in Shasta County just after the Carr Fire died down. Between the two, they consumed 109,500 acres, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
originally posted by: Phage
But it's all California's fault.
(10) A congressionally commissioned scientific study of the
Sierra Nevada forests found that more than any other human
activity, commercial logging has increased the risk and
severity of fires by removing the cooling shade of trees and
leaving flammable debris (see Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project
Final Report to Congress, Vol. 1 Assessment Summaries and
Management Strategies, 1996).