Watch The Forest Service Burn Down A Forest For Science

[@VICENews]

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[@Killmeplease69420]

VICE News I hate your channel

[@mq5731]

@@Killmeplease69420 Why?

[@Killmeplease69420]

@@mq5731 I have no idea I can’t remember I am su fearing from short term memory loss .-. I have no idea why I commented that it’s doesn’t sound like me lol

[@BronzeManul]

TO DEMONSTRATE THE POWER OF FLEXTAPE... I BURNED THIS FOREST DOWN!

[@gchavez43096]

It should be State instead of forest🤣

[@TTBOn00bKiLleR]

THAT'S ALOTA DAMAGE!

[@catwithabat7163]

*screaming*

[@Bpinator]

Its troubling that few people in this comment section understand how data is collected and learned from. The firefighters created a wildfire scenario that they can control so they could safely collect the data they need to fight ACTUAL dangerous fires. How else are we supposed to adapt to the increase in wildfires due to climate change?

[@bobadingo]

Suggesting stay off the dope sir.. .

[@SergeantExtreme]

Increase in wildfires due to warming or cooling? Which phenomenon is driving the increase?

[@tomg3285]

Better than the guy who started a fire that burned 47,000 acres from a gender reveal party last year

[@rankoss3437]

Tom G nice

[@Fauzanarief-n7i]

@Illiterati history repeat itself bro

[@jamesworth6507]

Just wait until all the commenters figure out how their medicine is tested...

[@LionMartell]

You did it Vice. You made a headline without any click bait. Now let’s see how it rates.

[@mroceans8336]

Flux Bullets Seeing as how you’re already complaining...

[@mroceans8336]

Flux Bullets But without Vice what would you complain about?

[@LionMartell]

CNN

[@mroceans8336]

Flux Bullets looking forward to your journalistic efforts.

[@LionMartell]

Ok thank you

[@benjanlupzig3708]

Fire destroys but in the long term it benefits the land

[@JDfabricacations]

It will fertilize the soil but will still take a long time to get back to what it was

[@multi-colorman5952]

Joe D sometimes the soil gets sterilized

[@breckenyoung3236]

Not when it gets that hot. Yeah it gave amazing fertilizer but it killed all the trees that would drop seeds. Now this will take maybe 70 to 100 years for seeds to make their way to the middle.

[@Krugster]

Yeaaah, specially when you can't use that land for a hundred years

[@2012frawd]

as i like to say "fire taketh but fire also giveth." lol

[@vaultsoferowid]

LOl at all the damn hippies commenting about birds. City people crack me up.

[@mindbodylightsound10]

RIP baby birds

[@adgtheg4146]

It's for the greater good

[@vilecrocodile9171]

The Californian forest department is nuts

[@errlshmirl3130]

Sacrifice the few to save the many. Its our burden we share. Welcome to being a grown up human.

[@jd9064]

white people dont care:(

[@mitchellwasmus435]

@@jd9064 Shutup 💀

[@jonfilibuster8499]

For those worried about this 'being worth it', look up secondary succession. It's the way forests rebuild themselves after facing disaster. Furthermore, we need this data to prevent fires from spreading and destroying more land than they already do. This was a very small plot of land compared to what damages we are currently facing.

[@cesararroyo9305]

Itll take years for those 2 thousand acres to heal

[@jonfilibuster8499]

@@cesararroyo9305 Not as long as it takes for the 1.9 million acres destroyed in California alone last year

[@ameraldas3641]

@@cesararroyo9305 not long, because the ecosystem is based on forest fires happening.

[@bye92]

Forest fires are good and extremely helpful to the environment. Don't be a complete liberal and think that forests should just be the way it is....

[@Tennischamp450]

These comments about the animals have me dying 😂😂😂

[@maritcheratunil4937]

I don’t know about this, was it worth it? I truly hope is was.

[@adgtheg4146]

It's worth the science bro, they explained it in the video. YOU CANT JUST GO OUT THERE AND COLLECT SMOKE.

[@dacealksne]

Burning down forest is always worth it.

[@LordVader1094]

Why wouldn't it be worth it? It's a way to figure out how to effectively stop forest fires.

[@onebackzach]

Although it goes against common sense, controlled burns are pretty important for a lot of ecosystems. I can't speak for that area in particular, but a lot of conifers rely on the fire in order for their seeds to sprout. Also it prevents a build up of dry brush and grass that could choke out saplings/baby trees and would eventually cause bigger fires down the line that would destroy things to an even greater extent. A good example of how suppressing fires rather than doing controlled burns or allowing natural fires is in some parts of Arkansas there are what is referred to as rock glades, where there are no trees and just bare rock and sand. It creates a sort of micro-climate where it's drier and about 10 degrees hotter on average. Prickly pear cactus, and collared lizards rely on those rock glades for their survival in Arkansas. The continued fire suppression created massive build ups of leaves and organic matter that eventually turned into soil that allowed larger plants and trees to grow, effectively destroying that mini-ecosystem

[@SobaOfPulaski]

Reading the comment section for the idiots who think its a conspiracy and the idiots who think this damages the environment 😂

[@chris2610]

I'm not even there and I'm getting nervous watching them start the blaze

[@TheSkecrow]

Interested in the data they obtained. Knowledge that improves defense and preparation against Wildfires>The birdie's in the trees.

[@ledak6910]

In case you're still interested, just one small result of the study includes how wildfire transports living microbes in smoke...more here: www.sciencenews.org/article/wildfire-smoke-microbes-air-health-risk-bacteria-fungi

[@SpartanBear7]

Here's comes those people complaining in the comments.

[@novaturhidayat9636]

Smokey bear: Only you can prevent forest fire

[@James-tb6je]

Vietnam flashbacks

[@errlshmirl3130]

TropicThunder

[@santsingh3288]

they should go to australia during forest fires rather than burning forests

[@Jose-Strelok773]

2::32 they start burning the woods

[@dispersingweight]

Adrian Gallacher is shilling below.

[@Blakhawk1703]

"it's for the greater good" lol

[@adgtheg4146]

Desperate times call for desperate measures

[@thoughtgrenades]

those poor animals...

[@trukviet]

Smokey The Bear said "Only you can prevent forest fires."

[@Potz4pizza]

Now... what can be gleamed from smoke analysis? Wood burns?

[@bye92]

Wow good one.

[@lorileehastings6478]

Killing numerous anamials is needed ?

[@maxhallman1036]

Yeah over killing humans

[@yvettebeaulieu8296]

​@@maxhallman1036no animals life are eqaul to humans so if a human kills a animal for no reason they die

[@sherrydee7880]

What will become of this burnt wasteland? Will it be left to regenerate itself & turn back into a lush green forested area again or sold off to a real estate investment firm that will build high end luxury homes that shall no doubt be marketed as being in a FIRE SAFE ZONE???

[@jakesweet1000]

i dont know about america but in australia we have trees thats seed come out only when there is a fire. this means the land fixes itself. its also good because having small fires prevents large uncontrolled ones.

[@ameraldas3641]

the entire ecosystem in almost all dry areas is based on frequent forest fires. ever heard of the circle of life?

[@lazzorfrogz2973]

Dude it’s a national park

[@PinstripeJim]

Dam time for an unbiased video. Fire has destroyed a lot of my county and the neighborhood I gew up in, in Southern CA in the last 2 years

[@july4701]

What about the animals???

[@july4701]

BC Bob umm ok...

[@rankoss3437]

rotisserie

[@davidchin5540]

Next California wild fire would be started by some mad scientists

[@clementchang7319]

Who tf does that for science lmao

[@jaydenfoxx2409]

Smart guys 🤓

[@boredguy3865]

Did you even listen to what they were saying?

[@clementchang7319]

connor hans but how sure are they that they aren’t hurting wildlife animals?

[@boredguy3865]

@@clementchang7319 unfortunately that's an acceptable casualtie. But I get feeling bad for the wildlife. But look at it like this, now they're just that much closer to learning how to stop massive wildfires that could become so larg that it could wipe out entire herds of elk ect.... and of course the biggest concern is obviously people and they're property.

[@clementchang7319]

connor hans although I know they’re doing this for the future in case there’s any wildfire but they should also be aware of casualties in the process.

[@gamingbigfilipp]

And now we wonder do fires actually happen themselves or by humans

[@Crispy3905]

The fire service started the California wildfires and now they are mocking us on TV

[@onebackzach]

Fires historically have happened on their own. Lighting strikes are probably the most common form of natural ignition. The issue has gotten a lot worse because of the droughts in the West and the fact that before people understood that fires were necessary, they focused on fire suppression rather than facilitating controlled burns, which caused a massive build-up of dry leaves, branches, grasses, etc. What we're seeing now is years and years worth of materials burning all at once and spreading rapidly because of how dry they are

[@lyflaf2533]

disgusting

[@veronicakoonce4600]

Why they keep buying the dam forest, I think it something up with that

[@bokunli6715]

3:35 he does enjoy it !

[@holdupyo8529]

Burning down a forest to see how far a firefighter should be... WTF

[@masterhacker7065]

You realize they do prescribed burns all the time? What do you think stopped forest fires back before humans knew how to put them out? Literally nothing did they just burned until they ran out of fuel or it rained on them

[@riggy7328]

what a waste of resources!!! and money

[@shawnrush3088]

jeffery riggin are you slow?

[@riggy7328]

shawn rush definitely depends on what I am doing. Thanks for asking.

[@olandeiscoleman3939]

Yup this is why we pay these guys they literal show us how they feed the media

[@Dani_sister4peace]

This is a great story. I wish they would have mentioned how climate change is a new major issue in stopping the fires

[@jonnyjb69]

But it isn't.

[@lazzorfrogz2973]

It’s more like government failure on land management

[@bye92]

Climate change has NOTHING to do with forest fires 🤣🤣

[@chazzat3113]

Burning down a forest to prevent fires?🤣

[@JoeSkylynx]

Yes. Controlled burns. They happen.

[@riqqarddopv7918]

Just look at California minimal forest care big ass fires

[@Therileyrileyriley]

Yikes, this hasn’t aged well...

[@karthik4711]

Is this even ethical?? Do people have some sense??

[@adgtheg4146]

Yes it is ethical

[@Noisykiller12]

ya it's pretty ethical

[@staystoosh9119]

What the hell?

[@smoke-hr2qd]

This was sad a stupid at the same time

[@Noisykiller12]

why?

[@rankoss3437]

idiot

[@timetotravel5886]

Waste of money ,tax payers money...shame on these fools...

[@maxhallman1036]

I'm sorry but do you pay for this

[@johannesswillery7855]

The most passionate are usually the most ignorant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cheydinal5401]

"We burned the forest down"

[@guinnster1]

Thanks silliness, There are more than enough unintentional fires to get this training?

[@jamesfloyd2007]

This may look bad for climite change. But it is good. What thay did is going to save lives. Also its going to save land.

[@dropzonemedia7811]

More fire is better??? 🤔 WHAT!!! And did we not already know how fuel responds to fire??? 💥

[@Noisykiller12]

It's too dangerous for scientists to collect data from an uncontrolled forest fire

[@dropzonemedia7811]

Noisykiller12 exactly, so why they researching a controlled fire when we know the real kind aint gonna go like that

[@Noisykiller12]

@@dropzonemedia7811 It's identical to a uncontrolled wild fire they just removed the surrounding trees so that the fire couln't spread any further than neccessary

[@Sara-L]

Less fire means more fuel buildup...So that when there finally is a fire, it explodes out of proportion and kills off everything, so the land can't regenerate. This prevents any chance of wildlife survival.

[@ANTSEMUT1]

@@dropzonemedia7811 yeah more animals dying in more intense fires very good.

[@scca460]

What a waste of time . Just because they have nothing to do

[@satireguy8595]

Boyscouts.

[@youcanthealwhatyoudontreveal]

The trees are like ... "Murderers!" ... "I'm too young to die!" ... "We give you oxygen and this is how you repay us?!"

[@cesararroyo9305]

You just destroyed 2 thousand acres of wildlife

[@adgtheg4146]

Was it worth it, yes

[@vilecrocodile9171]

Fight fire with fire

[@Noisykiller12]

and collected data from it which can save more lives

[@vaultsoferowid]

It will grow back, settle down hotrod.

[@lyflaf2533]

@@vaultsoferowid how u grow back as forest mulch

[@Brian_Moser1118]

they just burned an entire forest wtf

[@notthatguy4703]

Fire has been proven to benefit the ecosystem massively

[@выложитьнаютуб]

I think it’s odd there more government vehicles in southern and eastern Oregon with the forestry service then anywhere else in the state. Sometimes in areas with nothing. I’m just curious

[@mrniceguy7168]

lol why are so many people in the comments upset? Do people think this is just burning shit for fun on the taxpayers dime? Didn’t we all graduate middle school and learn the scientific method?

[@TonyPlease]

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[@whatsupman2010]

Wtf

[@abhishektyagialwayswins777]

#whathappenstoanimals

[@Tyranthraxus78]

🙄

[@glasser7062]

slerm

[@CartoonistVikrant]

Squirrels small birds etc died in this mock drill.may god bless that person the same faith who sanctioned this drill.🙏

[@rankoss3437]

what

[@vaultsoferowid]

Squirrels have legs, birds have wings....they can get away easily.

[@CartoonistVikrant]

@@vaultsoferowid their homes don't have legs and wings.sad Truth

[@Sara-L]

@@CartoonistVikrant When forests are allowed to overgrow to the point where any fire will get hot enough to melt steel, this is when their homes are destroyed. When regular burns are scheduled to keep overgrowth in check, their homes will be able to endure the occasional scorch.

[@CartoonistVikrant]

God save the eggs and the little mammals who can't run.🌺

[@jonwright1513]

Poor trump supporters

[@trailergems6147]

RIP all the animals🖕🏽😥

[@ANTSEMUT1]

Lolwut.

[@killacamfoo]

This in no way contributed to climate change, right?

[@vaultsoferowid]

Climate change ROFL. Get outta here with that BS.

[@Polite_Cat]

@@vaultsoferowid That "BS" is the fact based science that the majority of scientists that actually are educated and know what they are talking about believe in.

[@Polite_Cat]

@BC Bob The same science that discovered the theory of the big bang also discovered the effects of climate change. If you believe that scientists know what they're talking about then you cant just pick and choose random things you want to believe. You either believe the scientific method works or you dont.

[@Recroomsniperpro]

Smoky bear must be mad at these people now

[@ANTSEMUT1]

Smokey the bear was wrong.

[@sumthindiffferent]

And the animals?

[@maxhallman1036]

And the humans