First with a comment for the Algo boost!

Thinning and Fire Fact sheet mentioned by Chad Hanson: johnmuirproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/JMP-fact-sheet-thinning-and-fire-28Feb24.pdf

Thanks for experts willing to challenge the Forest Service gospel, which is climate malpractice, public health malpractice, forest management malpractice, and economic malpractice.

"...the solution can be found at the end of a chainsaw" (1:11:30) - well this* solution (albeit much more inconvenient, difficult, requiring more effort and proper values) looks like it's at the end of a chainsaw, and if anyone knows of more good examples like this solution, please inform *kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHuXeIBsd8lpfK8si=4Kah909d2FbA6XaX&t=609

1:13:13 - ~1:18:xx - excellent

from the description it says, "...highlighting the need for maintaining natural fire regimes to support biodiversity" - "MAINTAINING NATURAL.."??? seems like a contradiction

(re 2:28) ? is that REALLY the danger, or is that the danger that the ktla viewers need to know about? or the explanation that dr. hanson can give in such a context?

Another excellent, informative session! Should be required viewing for all environmentalists, media, and elected officials.

She doesn't know what she is talking about when it comes to fire science. Her entire theory is based on models not actual studies of fire in the Sierra. During one interview she is asked about her education and background on the environment and she tells a ridiculous story about living as a homeless person in the Sierra. She likes to drop the phrase, "while I was a graduate student," but her education had nothing to do with environmental science or forestry. Nice try though. Her proposal to shut down roads in the Sierra will make fire fighting more difficult, if not impossible. She wants to bring 2.7 million people into what is now the Sierra National Forest, which will make fire danger catastrophic. She was asked if she lived in the area and she stated she did not. She sighted the expense of living in the Sierra as the reason. She lives in the SF bay area, a far more expensive place. Well I saved my entire life to live and work in the Sierra and I don't go to other parts of the state believing that my love for them means I can demand changes that reduce the quality of life for those who live there. This lady is a complete imbecile and I can't wait to meet her in my neck of the woods.

Excellent and important presentations!

Our wildfire, and/or manmade, fire mismanagement stems from the fear-based, capitalist, binary paradigm of only wanting to reconcile the contraries.

Finally, something proving what we already know to be true: logging destroys forests.

Burning biomass is substantially worse than burning coal. And yet, European governments not only subsidize this but then report it, added to their green credentials. Extraordinary.

Dr. Hanson, thanks for posting this, especially about Eastern forests! As always, your accomplished fire research and climate insights never go unnoticed.

Read more about the study at www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/7/2/44

There are several powerful and well-funded timber trade groups operating out of public universities that are churning out fake research that says logging is the solution -- always the solution -- to climate and other environmental problems. The Washington state legislature gave $100,000 to CINTRAFOR, a timber trade group operating within the University of Washington's School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, to do a study to identify the most climate-friendly building product. CINTRAFOR turned the study over to its top salesman (PhD in marketing of forest products). The author was given direction and personal gifts by the state's lead timber-industry lobbying group. The UW study -- based on refuted climate research from another timber-industry trade group at the UW -- said the entire logging industry has to be subsidized for its climate value. Washington's "climate governor" signed the bill into law, with major support from key environmental groups. This publicly funded academic corruption has to be stopped. The state is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on climate legislation that increases carbon pollution and accelerates the extinction crisis.

Thats called ladder fuel

Anthropogenic burning regimes resulted in changes to plant species diversity within the study area but these changes were minor and less than the magnitude predicted from other studies.

Important message! Most people saw nothing but doom in the news and no one talking about the role of fire in shaping the evolution of these giant trees.

Everyone needs to watch and listen to this lecture. Learn from Dr. Hanson how forests that are "managed" and logged are the forests that tend to burn with more intensity and at faster speeds. Intact canopied forests on the other hand, tend to burn slower and with less frequency. Share the video as there is too much fear mongering happening, and the REAL TRUTH needs to be spread. Thank you.

Can't wait to listen to the entire presentation!

Any channel that turns it's comments off to feed children lies might be an arsonist for fake green. I bet a dollar you're the most ignorant people on earth about forests. Dirty forests make CA burn and really, best to burn it than to burn landfill garbage over humans to make fake green profits for a few with a contract with one of the biggest logging co.'s out there, SPI. Now it burns hot, I hope it burns so hot there's nothing left from Stockton to Loyalton, east to Fernley, NV as they too sent their garbage, who doesn't want fake green by burning garbage? I bet all of you would love to breathe that in not knowing what Juan put in the landfill, Billy Bob, Govt. Burning govt. materials that harm troops is a big deal, hard to bury it, expensive. And here you are, brainwashing youtube kids telling them lies about the forest, maybe about fake green that will cause their deaths early, tell them that. Tell them the forests must burn for crimes against humanity because all govt. had to do was clean the forest but all that stolen tax to do it fit so well in their pockets and the fines for burning trash, oh my goodness. Plumas, Sierra, Nevada and more counties feed off of our death and illness. So yeah, burn it all to ash. They can use it for fertilizer.

I am completely with you on fire is a natural ecological process that brings benefits to native flora and fona, but as a conservationist and a forest landowner logging brings income and helps to keep my forest from becoming old growth and keeps forbs on the forest floor (savanna habitat). When forests become too dense from not logging or lack of fire and now crowns are touching is why we have devastating wild land fires. Food for thought. Thanks

Forty years ago, I remember the old bull bucks saying, “We don’t put out fires in the woods. Either the rains do or they run into an old growth forest and fall to the ground as a surface fire and go out.” Now, with 95% of the old growth gone only the rains really help to put out fires of any size and consequence. Until we acknowledge and understand the connections between past practices and current realities, we will continue to experience uncharacteristic fire danger.

Excellent work from JMP!

Beautiful footage. Thank you for sharing and letting us know that this is from the Rim Fire which-like all forest fires-is thriving with life.