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August 22, 2013
Wildfire Threatens Yosemite
I've been through Yosemite Park a few times, most recently in May of this year. I planned my work in San Francisco to end when Tioga pass opened up, if you can believe it. Sounds kind of silly, but that was my goal...to hang around San Francisco until the snows melted on Tioga Pass, so I could drive my motorcycle home to Colorado by way of the Yosemite Valley.
So, that's what I did, of course. And it was a beautiful trip. But Yosemite has a dirty little secret that they don't like to talk about - the Big Meadow Fire. When I first went through Yosemite, I was shocked to realize that thousands of acres of it was basically reduced to charcoal. Turns out that the idiotic government bureaucrats started a controlled burn that got out of hand and burned down over 7,000 acres of old-growth redwood forests before it was contained. Well done, idiots.
People still, somehow, fail to realize how much of the park was torched, as evidenced by this article by Fox News. They barely even mention the Big Meadow Fire.
I'm not really clear that there's a right way and a wrong way to manage forests. But it seems logical to me cut fire breaks the forests, and hold people accountable when the controlled burns get out of control.
Posted by Rob Kiser on August 22, 2013 at 11:15 PM
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