Georgia has 1.25 million acres of controlled burns and Alabama had 944,000 acres of controlled burns.
California had 1.9 million acres of forests burned from wildfires in 2018 against the 87,000 acres burned in controlled fires.
UC Berkeley fire ecologist Brandon Collins brought me here to show me the consequence of decades of fire suppression combined with climate change. This forest would usually burn nine times over the course of 100 years, but no fire had blazed here since at least 1908. “Without fire, you’re going to have these dense stands no matter what,” Collins says. In 2014, the King Fire hit this unnaturally overgrown forest, leaping into the canopy and racing across a vast landscape. Limited patches of high-intensity fire would be natural in these forests. But in 47 percent of the 97,717 acres burned in the King Fire, the blaze was so hot that it killed nearly all of the trees.
California needs to burn 2-5 million acres a year. This should be controlled burns instead of wildfires.
This level of burning needs to be near the historic levels. Almost the entire 33 million acres of forests needs to be burned every 10-20 years. More sensitive areas near populations need to be thinned and managed without fire.
I'll bet I can find ours over at my dad's house. We used to love setting that up. I think we did at Christmas originally, but usually it just sat year round in the basement play room. Always out in the middle of the room, never up against the wall (see photo ), with a couple of bean bag chairs near it. It sort of served as a room divider, my sister's crap was on the other side. The light bulb fixture was taken out of it pretty quickly because we'd left it on a few too many times and the cardboard was scorched. I read Kon-Tiki and Watership Down and Centennial and 100 other books with that in my peripheral vision.
I'll bet I can find ours over at my dad's house. We used to love setting that up. I think we did at Christmas originally, but usually it just sat year round in the basement play room. Always out in the middle of the room, never up against the wall (see photo ), with a couple of bean bag chairs near it. It sort of served as a room divider, my sister's crap was on the other side. The light bulb fixture was taken out of it pretty quickly because we'd left it on a few too many times and the cardboard was scorched. I read Kon-Tiki and Watership Down and Centennial and 100 other books with that in my peripheral vision.
I'll bet I can find ours over at my dad's house. We used to love setting that up. I think we did at Christmas originally, but usually it just sat year round in the basement play room. Always out in the middle of the room, never up against the wall (see photo ), with a couple of bean bag chairs near it. It sort of served as a room divider, my sister's crap was on the other side. The light bulb fixture was taken out of it pretty quickly because we'd left it on a few too many times and the cardboard was scorched. I read Kon-Tiki and Watership Down and Centennial and 100 other books with that in my peripheral vision.
I remember a friend of mine had one with a sort of scalloped/finned metal wheel that was balanced above the light bulb and the heat from the bulb made it spin and create a less-than-convincing illusion of flames in the "firebox". There's one on Etsy for only $399.00!
Oh yeah, the precursor to those infrared heaters that do jack shit. At least that thing gave off 60W of heat.
I'll bet I can find ours over at my dad's house. We used to love setting that up. I think we did at Christmas originally, but usually it just sat year round in the basement play room. Always out in the middle of the room, never up against the wall (see photo ), with a couple of bean bag chairs near it. It sort of served as a room divider, my sister's crap was on the other side. The light bulb fixture was taken out of it pretty quickly because we'd left it on a few too many times and the cardboard was scorched. I read Kon-Tiki and Watership Down and Centennial and 100 other books with that in my peripheral vision.
I remember a friend of mine had one with a sort of scalloped/finned metal wheel that was balanced above the light bulb and the heat from the bulb made it spin and create a less-than-convincing illusion of flames in the "firebox". There's one on Etsy for only $399.00!
I'll bet I can find ours over at my dad's house. We used to love setting that up. I think we did at Christmas originally, but usually it just sat year round in the basement play room. Always out in the middle of the room, never up against the wall (see photo ), with a couple of bean bag chairs near it. It sort of served as a room divider, my sister's crap was on the other side. The light bulb fixture was taken out of it pretty quickly because we'd left it on a few too many times and the cardboard was scorched. I read Kon-Tiki and Watership Down and Centennial and 100 other books with that in my peripheral vision.
The wife checked in a couple of hours ago with an update in her neck of the woods. She is safe up in Lake Elsinore but her daughter's house in Menefee / Murietta is a couple of miles from the new fire in Riverside County, the other new one just north of the Lilac Fire in SD county. We don't know the name of this one. Meanwhile Jennifer is in a nursing facility nearby after a couple of months stuck in the hospital and can't get anything out if she wanted to. Her kittehs will be evacuated and taken care of. She does have a fireproof box for birth certificates and what not like any smart Californian does. Hopefully it gets contained quickly.
As if the ones up north weren't enough, the ones in Ventura and LA are the big ones we all worried about and hoped would never happen, like that big earthquake we are still waiting for ... Praying for the best.
These fires make me think about the Doors ... I see your hair is burning ...
The wife checked in a couple of hours ago with an update in her neck of the woods. She is safe up in Lake Elsinore but her daughter's house in Menefee / Murietta is a couple of miles from the new fire in Riverside County, the other new one just north of the Lilac Fire in SD county. We don't know the name of this one. Meanwhile Jennifer is in a nursing facility nearby after a couple of months stuck in the hospital and can't get anything out if she wanted to. Her kittehs will be evacuated and taken care of. She does have a fireproof box for birth certificates and what not like any smart Californian does. Hopefully it gets contained quickly.
As if the ones up north weren't enough, the ones in Ventura and LA are the big ones we all worried about and hoped would never happen, like that big earthquake we are still waiting for ... Praying for the best.
These fires make me think about the Doors ... I see your hair is burning ...
), with a couple of bean bag chairs near it. It sort of served as a room divider, my sister's crap was on the other side. The light bulb fixture was taken out of it pretty quickly because we'd left it on a few too many times and the cardboard was scorched. I read Kon-Tiki and Watership Down and Centennial and 100 other books with that in my peripheral vision.
