I spent so many years living in the wild that I still can’t get enough of it. I love hanging out in the pine forest around my home. It gives me a sense of connection and peace every time I spend any time in it. Lately, I’ve been having a lot of discussions with locals who don’t understand forest management or fire fighting tactics and technology. I recently had to disavow someone of the misconception that airplanes that spread fire retardant slurry on the forest ahead of a fire are destroying the forest from ever growing again. It’s amazing the disinformation that gets spread out in the community. We also had a long discussion about fire mitigation efforts that involve removing trees and other ladder fuels. Of course the bias was that the forest was being decimated, when the truth was that removing some of these understory fuels was important to mimic the effect of historically normal and needed fires that we now do everything we can to prevent or extinguish. Preservation and protection of wildlands and parks is important to me, and it is at the core of all the made up stories that I write. It’s amazing to me how little folks know about how that is accomplished, and how much disinformation is out there from biased parties with an agenda.
Today, I enjoyed seeing that my local forest is doing mitigation clearing efforts along one of my favorite hiking trails along Aspen Creek.
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