Wild Fires Across America Starting Back Up.
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Who started these fires?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/04/28/florida-everglades-fires-intentional/
Federal officials said they are investigating at least nine fires that were intentionally started in Everglades National Park in South Florida in recent weeks, occurring at a rate that the National Park Service said was higher than normal.
The fires at Everglades National Park — a treasured subtropical wilderness spanning 1.5 million acres, with sawgrass prairies, pine forests and swamps — ranged from 3 feet by 5 feet to 40 acres. Four blazes were sparked on Feb. 15, and others in subsequent days through April 6; a 10th recently occurred on an unknown date, according to the Park Service.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/04/28/florida-everglades-fires-intentional/
Federal officials said they are investigating at least nine fires that were intentionally started in Everglades National Park in South Florida in recent weeks, occurring at a rate that the National Park Service said was higher than normal.
The fires at Everglades National Park — a treasured subtropical wilderness spanning 1.5 million acres, with sawgrass prairies, pine forests and swamps — ranged from 3 feet by 5 feet to 40 acres. Four blazes were sparked on Feb. 15, and others in subsequent days through April 6; a 10th recently occurred on an unknown date, according to the Park Service.
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Ignore the politics just be warned about predicted potential risk from fires.
https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matt...ire-risk-requires-substantive-policy-changes/
Scientists are warning that the coming months hold unprecedented wildfire risk for the western United States. Climate change is one factor driving that risk, but more than a century of suppressing fires on federal, state, and private lands has also contributed to conditions that drive larger, hotter, and more destructive wildfires. In recent years wildfires have created hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons, degraded water systems, reversed carbon sequestration, increased carbon emissions, decreased air quality, and damaged ecosystems.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will help decrease fire risks over time. In the near term,
https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matt...ire-risk-requires-substantive-policy-changes/
Scientists are warning that the coming months hold unprecedented wildfire risk for the western United States. Climate change is one factor driving that risk, but more than a century of suppressing fires on federal, state, and private lands has also contributed to conditions that drive larger, hotter, and more destructive wildfires. In recent years wildfires have created hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons, degraded water systems, reversed carbon sequestration, increased carbon emissions, decreased air quality, and damaged ecosystems.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will help decrease fire risks over time. In the near term,
Some controlled wouldn't hurt a thing.
