"We can't do anything about drought, it's climate change," says Nickie Johnny, an incident commander who managed the McKinney and Calf Canyon fires this summer.
Veteran incident commander Nickie Johnny, who leads an elite federal team, says extreme drought made worse by climate change are making for dangerous firefighting conditions.Veteran incident commander Nickie Johnny, who leads an elite federal team, says extreme drought made worse by climate change are making for dangerous firefighting conditions.But in extreme drought made worse by climate change, Johnny says preparation work can only go so far. Now the U.S.
on fire suppression. But there are now tens of millions of federal and state dollars also going toward upfront mitigation work.Just over the mountains from Yreka, Calif., near the historic gold mining town of Jacksonville, Ore., smoke and haze from the McKinney Fire hangs in the air as Rich Fairbanks steers his small pickup up a winding mountain highway.
What? Are they just gonna go out there with a rake or something?
Still trying to promote the lie about wildfires in CA coming from the climate change hoax. Yeah, 1 degree in a hundred years will cause fires. Good thing it respects borders though, and it's not happening in Mexico or Canada, or Florida (places where forests are managed).
Nature burned itself down to the ground annually until ignorant man suppressed it. Now fires are worse. Climate change has nothing to do with it.
Wildfires has toning to do with climate change. Has to do with letting under growth getting out of control and people controlling their camp fires.
I’m old enough to remember when a certain orange man was ridiculed for saying basically the same thing.
No maintenance, more fires! We want to spend our tax dollars on other things! Sorry!
This article wouldn’t have been run two years ago. Defund NPR.
You mean forest management?
Climate change: hoax based on pseudo-science, flawed models, denial of weather cycles. Sensationalism to sow fear in the masses.
What does climate change have to do with this?
Oregon here, massive restrictions to logging have probably had a larger effect than either climate change or fire suppression. Before Europeans settled the Willamette Valley, natives had been regularly burning massive areas that are now chock full of fir. But now it's a 'habitat'
Has no link to climate change. It’s bad forest management, and lack of controlled burns.
This is a narrative wants you to believe but has no facts to support. When lighting would strike Forrest’s 300 years ago who put them out The answer is NOBODY 🤡🤡
My husband is a fire boss with The Nature Conservancy leading prescribed burns for this (and other habitat health) reason.