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in Western states\u003c/a> in violation of federal law, a judge ruled Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halting the use of the red slurry material could have resulted in greater environmental damage from wildfires, said U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula, Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge agreed with U.S. Forest Service officials who said dropping retardant from aircraft into areas with waterways was sometimes necessary to protect lives and property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling came after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-forests-lawsuits-fish-montana-0e3b777d2df198826587e702b34ebb9d\">environmentalists sued\u003c/a> following revelations that the Forest Service had dropped retardant into waterways hundreds of times over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials say chemical fire retardant can be crucial to slowing the advance of dangerous blazes. Wildfires across North America have grown bigger and more destructive over the past two decades as climate change warms the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 loads of retardant got into waterways over the past decade. Federal officials say those situations usually occurred by mistake and in less than 1% of the thousands of loads annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition that includes the town of Paradise — where the 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed the town — had said a court ruling that stopped the use of retardant would have put lives, homes and forests at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1982594 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/Sonoma_Fire_Assessment007-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case was very personal for us,” Paradise Mayor Greg Bolin said. “Our brave firefighters need every tool in the toolbox to protect human lives and property against wildfires, and today’s ruling ensures we have a fighting chance this fire season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local agencies lean heavily on the U.S. Forest Service to help fight fires, many of which originate on or include federal land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire retardant is a specialized mixture of water and chemicals including inorganic fertilizers or salts. It’s designed to alter the way fire burns, making blazes less intense and slowing their advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can give firefighters time to steer flames away from inhabited areas and, in extreme situations, evacuate people from danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retardant lasts and even works if it’s dry,” said Scott Upton, a former region chief and air attack group supervisor for Cal Fire, California’s state fire agency. “Water is only so good because it dries out. It does very well to suppress fires, but it won’t last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters in yellow hardhats stand atop white utility trucks as they watch an air tanker spray red clouds of fire retardant on a wildfire. The sky is gray with black clouds.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters watch as an air tanker drops retardant while battling the Ferguson Fire in the Stanislaus National Forest, near Yosemite National Park, on July 21, 2018. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Oregon-based group Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics argued in its \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-forests-lawsuits-fish-montana-0e3b777d2df198826587e702b34ebb9d\">lawsuit filed last year\u003c/a> that the Forest Service was disregarding the Clean Water Act by continuing to use retardant without taking adequate precautions to protect streams and rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen said stopping the use of fire retardant would “conceivably result in greater harm from wildfires — including to human life and property and to the environment.” The judge said his ruling was limited to 10 Western states where members of the plaintiff’s group alleged harm from pollution into waterways that they use.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Paradise Mayor Greg Bolin\"]‘Our brave firefighters need every tool in the toolbox to protect human lives and property against wildfires, and today’s ruling ensures we have a fighting chance this fire season.’[/pullquote]After the lawsuit was filed, the Forest Service applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for a permit that would allow it to continue using retardant without breaking the law. The process could take several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a permit could require tighter restrictions on when retardant could be used or for officials to use less-toxic chemicals, said Andy Stahl with Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s certainly a good first step,” Stahl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen ordered federal officials to report every six months on their progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Wade Muehlhof said the agency believes retardant can be used “without compromising public health and the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Forest Service is working diligently with the Environmental Protection Agency on a general permit for aerially delivered retardant that will allow us to continue using wildfire retardant to protect homes and communities,” Muehlhof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change, people moving into fire-prone areas, and overgrown forests are creating more catastrophic megafires that are harder to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 150 million gallons of fire retardant were dropped on national forest lands between 2013 and 2022, according to the Department of Agriculture. Retardant drops onto forests in California accounted for 49% of the total volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health risks to firefighters and other people who come into contact with fire retardant are considered low, according to a 2021 risk assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11950942 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A nature shot within the forest with a running stream in the background along with wild deer running in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Klamath River, which flows through Oregon and Northern California. The Oregon-based group Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics argued in a lawsuit filed last year that the Forest Service was disregarding the Clean Water Act by continuing to use retardant without taking adequate precautions to protect streams and rivers. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the chemicals can be harmful to some fish, frogs, crustaceans and other aquatic species. A government study found that misapplied retardant could adversely affect dozens of imperiled species, including crawfish, spotted owls and fish such as shiners and suckers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest Service officials said they are trying to come into compliance with the law by getting a pollution permit, but that could take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep streams from getting polluted, officials in recent years have avoided drops inside buffer zones within 300 feet of waterways. Retardant may only be applied inside those zones when human life or public safety is threatened. Of 213 instances of fire retardant landing in water between 2012 and 2019, 190 were accidents and the remainder were necessary to save lives or property, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many areas of the Western U.S. experienced heavy snowfalls this past winter, and as a result, fire dangers are lower than in recent years across much of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story has been updated.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A judge agreed with US Forest Service officials that dropping retardant from aircraft into areas with waterways is sometimes necessary to protect lives and property. More than 200 loads of retardant had gotten into waterways over the past decade.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1685144788,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1056},"headData":{"title":"Judge Rules in Favor of Fire Retardant Use Despite It Polluting Streams in Western States | KQED","description":"A judge agreed with US Forest Service officials that dropping retardant from aircraft into areas with waterways is sometimes necessary to protect lives and property. More than 200 loads of retardant had gotten into waterways over the past decade.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Judge Rules in Favor of Fire Retardant Use Despite It Polluting Streams in Western States","datePublished":"2023-05-26T23:33:50.000Z","dateModified":"2023-05-26T23:46:28.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MatthewBrownAP\">Matthew Brown\u003c/a>\u003cbr> The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11950885/judge-rules-in-favor-of-fire-retardant-use-despite-it-polluting-streams-in-western-states","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-retardant-pollution-lawsuit-1fa9557473357d03f01b592713afd4a3\">U.S. government can keep using chemical retardant\u003c/a> dropped from aircraft to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-retardant-pollution-lawsuit-81e195428e748bbb36116128e35c7e39\">pollutes streams in Western states\u003c/a> in violation of federal law, a judge ruled Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halting the use of the red slurry material could have resulted in greater environmental damage from wildfires, said U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula, Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge agreed with U.S. Forest Service officials who said dropping retardant from aircraft into areas with waterways was sometimes necessary to protect lives and property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling came after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-forests-lawsuits-fish-montana-0e3b777d2df198826587e702b34ebb9d\">environmentalists sued\u003c/a> following revelations that the Forest Service had dropped retardant into waterways hundreds of times over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials say chemical fire retardant can be crucial to slowing the advance of dangerous blazes. Wildfires across North America have grown bigger and more destructive over the past two decades as climate change warms the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 loads of retardant got into waterways over the past decade. Federal officials say those situations usually occurred by mistake and in less than 1% of the thousands of loads annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition that includes the town of Paradise — where the 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed the town — had said a court ruling that stopped the use of retardant would have put lives, homes and forests at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1982594","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/Sonoma_Fire_Assessment007-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case was very personal for us,” Paradise Mayor Greg Bolin said. “Our brave firefighters need every tool in the toolbox to protect human lives and property against wildfires, and today’s ruling ensures we have a fighting chance this fire season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local agencies lean heavily on the U.S. Forest Service to help fight fires, many of which originate on or include federal land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire retardant is a specialized mixture of water and chemicals including inorganic fertilizers or salts. It’s designed to alter the way fire burns, making blazes less intense and slowing their advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can give firefighters time to steer flames away from inhabited areas and, in extreme situations, evacuate people from danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retardant lasts and even works if it’s dry,” said Scott Upton, a former region chief and air attack group supervisor for Cal Fire, California’s state fire agency. “Water is only so good because it dries out. It does very well to suppress fires, but it won’t last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters in yellow hardhats stand atop white utility trucks as they watch an air tanker spray red clouds of fire retardant on a wildfire. The sky is gray with black clouds.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS34370_GettyImages-1003505278-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters watch as an air tanker drops retardant while battling the Ferguson Fire in the Stanislaus National Forest, near Yosemite National Park, on July 21, 2018. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Oregon-based group Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics argued in its \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-forests-lawsuits-fish-montana-0e3b777d2df198826587e702b34ebb9d\">lawsuit filed last year\u003c/a> that the Forest Service was disregarding the Clean Water Act by continuing to use retardant without taking adequate precautions to protect streams and rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen said stopping the use of fire retardant would “conceivably result in greater harm from wildfires — including to human life and property and to the environment.” The judge said his ruling was limited to 10 Western states where members of the plaintiff’s group alleged harm from pollution into waterways that they use.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Our brave firefighters need every tool in the toolbox to protect human lives and property against wildfires, and today’s ruling ensures we have a fighting chance this fire season.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Paradise Mayor Greg Bolin","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After the lawsuit was filed, the Forest Service applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for a permit that would allow it to continue using retardant without breaking the law. The process could take several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a permit could require tighter restrictions on when retardant could be used or for officials to use less-toxic chemicals, said Andy Stahl with Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s certainly a good first step,” Stahl said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christensen ordered federal officials to report every six months on their progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Wade Muehlhof said the agency believes retardant can be used “without compromising public health and the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Forest Service is working diligently with the Environmental Protection Agency on a general permit for aerially delivered retardant that will allow us to continue using wildfire retardant to protect homes and communities,” Muehlhof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change, people moving into fire-prone areas, and overgrown forests are creating more catastrophic megafires that are harder to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 150 million gallons of fire retardant were dropped on national forest lands between 2013 and 2022, according to the Department of Agriculture. Retardant drops onto forests in California accounted for 49% of the total volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health risks to firefighters and other people who come into contact with fire retardant are considered low, according to a 2021 risk assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11950942 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A nature shot within the forest with a running stream in the background along with wild deer running in the foreground.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS21524_IMG_4452-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Klamath River, which flows through Oregon and Northern California. The Oregon-based group Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics argued in a lawsuit filed last year that the Forest Service was disregarding the Clean Water Act by continuing to use retardant without taking adequate precautions to protect streams and rivers. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the chemicals can be harmful to some fish, frogs, crustaceans and other aquatic species. A government study found that misapplied retardant could adversely affect dozens of imperiled species, including crawfish, spotted owls and fish such as shiners and suckers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest Service officials said they are trying to come into compliance with the law by getting a pollution permit, but that could take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep streams from getting polluted, officials in recent years have avoided drops inside buffer zones within 300 feet of waterways. Retardant may only be applied inside those zones when human life or public safety is threatened. Of 213 instances of fire retardant landing in water between 2012 and 2019, 190 were accidents and the remainder were necessary to save lives or property, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many areas of the Western U.S. experienced heavy snowfalls this past winter, and as a result, fire dangers are lower than in recent years across much of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story has been updated.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11950885/judge-rules-in-favor-of-fire-retardant-use-despite-it-polluting-streams-in-western-states","authors":["byline_news_11950885"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20023","news_2920","news_20792","news_5891","news_4337","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11950907","label":"news"},"news_11933052":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11933052","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11933052","score":null,"sort":[1669664345000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-burn-scars-of-the-sierra-foothills-tell-a-story-and-offer-lessons","title":"The Burn Scars of the Sierra Foothills Tell a Story — and Offer Lessons","publishDate":1669664345,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Blodgett Forest Research Station sits about 30 miles west of the southern tip of Lake Tahoe, amid commercial timber and U.S. Forest Service lands. A place for foresters and scientists to experiment with the care and management of forested lands, Blodgett is a prime study site because it’s representative of much of the forested Sierra — all the old growth trees were effectively logged out in the late 1800 and early 1900s. Mostly second growth exists now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers have practiced varying harvesting, thinning and prescribed burning techniques in study plots here since the 1930s, when the land was gifted to the University of California by a private timber company. One focus area of study is how to manage forest lands to be resilient to wildfire. Some of this is “really cutting edge stuff,” says research scientist Brandon Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold\">Blodgett: No Stranger to Fire\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;font-weight: normal\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;font-weight: normal\">Prior to the Gold Rush, the Blodgett area was a typical mixed-conifer forest, with white fir, Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, sugar pine, incense cedar and California black oak, a hardwood. Here, as throughout the Sierra Nevada, Native people regularly set fire to the land to enhance deer and game habitat and for other benefits.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\n\u003cp>Before the 1849 Gold Rush, fire moved through the forest around every 10- to 12 years, sometimes as frequently as every two years. Starting in the 1890s, parts of the Blodgett forest were logged by oxen teams, later replaced with steam equipment. Almost all of Blodgett, as well as almost all of the Sierra, was logged during the last century. Loggers especially prized pine trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sprouts now from the forest floor is primarily second growth cedars and firs — trees that tolerate shade and crowding but are particularly vulnerable to fire and drought. The property was gifted to the University of California by a private timber company almost 90 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For the past 90 years, all fires on Blodgett have been intentionally set — carefully managed by people trained to bring them under control quickly if needed. That changed in September, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11926715/pge-says-its-under-investigation-for-starting-mosquito-fire-in-sierra-nevada\">the Mosquito Fire, which started near a PG&E line on Sept. 6\u003c/a>, burned rapidly and crossed the northern boundary of Blodgett on the morning of Sept. 9. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blodgett staff had already been evacuated from the area for safety. The fire was considered fully contained on Blodgett by Sept. 11. It burned around 100 acres of the 3,000-acre property. All told, the Mosquito Fire burned 77,000 thousand acres in Placer and El Dorado counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fire damaged control plots for some long-term studies, it opened other opportunities for research. It also underlined the importance of preparing California’s forests for fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Save trees from fire by lighting fires?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Brandon Collins stands in front of what was recently a hillside of young trees, now burnt to blackened crisps by a wildfire. When these trees were alive, the trunks were barely the diameter of an arm or a calf. They now look like a crowd of knobby, emaciated skeletons. They are of no economic value and, unless replanted, risk becoming a field of brush rather than regrowing as a forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about, if we go back in time, what could we have done differently to change the outcome?” asks Rob York, co-director of Berkeley Forests, which manages the study site. This area was clear-cut a few decades ago and left alone ever since. “It’s tricky, right? They’re vulnerable because they’re short trees. It doesn’t take a lot of fire intensity to cause a high-severity fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a white woman stands on a deck showing a fire map in a forest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Roughton, research forest manager at Berkeley Forests, displays a map of the Mosquito Fire at the Blodgett headquarters. Each solid color is the progress of the fire within a single day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Land managers at Blodgett could have thinned it with chain saws or a masticator (which is like a wood chipper on a tractor). Both of these options are tremendously expensive, up to $2,000 an acre, with no monetary return — placing them out of reach for almost all land managers, especially those managing for a commercial timber harvest to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industrial timber managers sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://cal-ipc.org/docs/bmps/dd9jwo1ml8vttq9527zjhek99qr/BMPHerbicide.pdf\">spray herbicide (PDF)\u003c/a> to kill competing vegetation in young stands of trees, again at a price. But the practice is \u003ca href=\"https://www.stopclearcuttingca.org/resources/clearcutting-and-toxic-chemicals/\">unpopular among neighboring communities\u003c/a> and can \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/timberland-herbicide-spraying-sickens-a-community\">sicken exposed people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theoretically, some of the thinned material could be harvested as biomass and incinerated in a cogeneration facility, with profits from energy generation defraying the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in this area and much of the Sierras,” says Ariel Roughton, research forest manager at Berkeley Forests, “that is not a viable option because the infrastructure doesn't exist. [...] There's not really a lot of good answers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11925321,news_11926715,news_11887536\"]Research on increasing forest resilience could not be more timely, with many acres of industrial timberland in the state looking similar — young trees growing back after a clear cut — and with the state’s wildfire problem accelerating in an era of climate change, drought and fire suppression. Over the coming years, the economic calculus of what makes financial sense for a timber company might change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could go back in time, I would go back two years ago and do a prescribed fire here,” says York, who is piloting this approach currently at Blodgett. “But it is hard to pull off a prescribed fire in this kind of [young forest] structure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just the day prior to this interview, he conducted a prescribed burn in a forest that looked similar to this stand of trees pre-wildfire. Doing such a fire kills off and consumes some of the trees that could make for a future profit, but it can also inoculate the stand against being entirely destroyed by future fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody’s talking about putting [prescribed] fire in 30-year-old stands. It’s taboo, by the way, for classic forestry,” says Collins. “You'd be burning some of your crop and there are lots of risks and difficulties with doing fire. But maybe if fire loss increases, it'll start to look more viable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is kind of leading a way to a new frontier in forest management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few hundred feet away, over a dirt road, a patch of forest looks quite different from this walking graveyard of small, skinny trees. The Mosquito Fire reached it, too, but then quieted down and became a \"surface fire,\" burning along the ground instead of torching the crowns of the trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring they did a prescribed fire there. Roughton relays what happened when the Mosquito Fire passed from the untreated forest area to the location with the recent prescribed fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"three white people in conversation in a forest with skinny, burned trees\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Collins, lead scientist at Berkeley Forests, speaks about the impacts of the Mosquito Fire and treatment effectiveness at the UC Berkeley Blodgett Forest Research Station. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The [wildfire] came up in this direction and the intensity changed, right? It was high, high-intensity here. And then over on this side,” she said, indicating the other side of the road, “we did see the fire effects change. It still killed some of these trees along the edge, but it did then drop to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to saving trees, the calmer fire behavior allowed firefighters to lay lines of containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But up the road, around a large bend, is a patch of forest that had been diligently treated with beneficial fires. When the Mosquito Fire, running uphill, slammed into it, many trees, even large older ones, still died. Viewed from the road, the trees are mostly dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is actually kind of a sad location for me,” says York, “because I had done the two prescribed fires here in the past, but yet we still see dead trees up in the canopy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a white man in a yellow jacket and blue ball cap walks in a forest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob York is experimenting with techniques to make young tree stands more resilient to wildfire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here, the researchers suspect the landscape had something to do with it. The fire had been making a long run uphill and crested like a powerful wave pounding ashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, York says, deeper into the treated area, “we do start to see green trees. We saw the wildfire behaving like a low-severity fire caused by the prescribed fire we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When wildfire is good fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For the most part, the Mosquito Fire burned in a moderate, and even mild, way on Blodgett. In a low-intensity fire, stumps may be blackened but remain intact. In a moderate-intensity fire, stumps will be burned deep enough to form charcoal. In a high-severity fire, the stumps are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were really fortunate that it didn't burn more of the property,” said Roughton. “It was, I think, a combination of our forest management, the weather helped us tremendously and then obviously the suppression folks who were out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"swales in a pile in a burned area of forest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the far left, some trees are still green thanks in part to a recent prescribed fire. In the foreground, swales wait to be deployed to reduce erosion in an area badly burned by the Mosquito Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, most of the acres that did burn don’t necessarily look too bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that gets mischaracterized,” says Collins, “is the idea that a wildfire burns and it's all catastrophe, it’s all destroyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, he said, these forests are adapted to low- and moderate-severity fires. Even some patches of high-severity fire can be a benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Test-driving new treatments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About a mile away, smoke is still rising like morning mist from a field, in a patch of forest. York burned it just the day before. It had looked similar to the high-density young forest seen at the start of the day, the one that burned up like a matchstick in the Mosquito Fire. Now, it’s opened up. You could walk through the stand without snagging your jacket on sticks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let the fire kill all these small trees,” says York. “We just did it very cheaply and with an ecological process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"smoke can be seen from a prescribed burn in a forest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A prescribed fire continues to smoke from several days prior at the UC Berkeley Blodgett Forest Research Station. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>York will be studying how this stand responds to the fire and whether the expected timber harvest to come from it is much reduced, which he says is still an open question. Heat can kill some parts of the tree’s crown and reduce growth. Yet, the additional space between trees may encourage bigger growth. This stand is also now less likely to be entirely lost in a future fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have some [forestry] friends who really focus on timber as their objective,” says York. “I think they would like this outcome primarily for that reason. We let the fire kill all these small trees. And that was a pretty cheap way to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While California's largest blaze of 2022 damaged tree plots at the Blodgett Forest Research Station — becoming the first unintentional burn at the study site in 90 years — it unexpectedly presented new opportunities for forest fire research. Here's what scientists have learned.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1670264307,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1901},"headData":{"title":"The Burn Scars of the Sierra Foothills Tell a Story — and Offer Lessons | KQED","description":"While California's largest blaze of 2022 damaged tree plots at the Blodgett Forest Research Station — becoming the first unintentional burn at the study site in 90 years — it unexpectedly presented new opportunities for forest fire research. Here's what scientists have learned.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Burn Scars of the Sierra Foothills Tell a Story — and Offer Lessons","datePublished":"2022-11-28T19:39:05.000Z","dateModified":"2022-12-05T18:18:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11933052/the-burn-scars-of-the-sierra-foothills-tell-a-story-and-offer-lessons","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Blodgett Forest Research Station sits about 30 miles west of the southern tip of Lake Tahoe, amid commercial timber and U.S. Forest Service lands. A place for foresters and scientists to experiment with the care and management of forested lands, Blodgett is a prime study site because it’s representative of much of the forested Sierra — all the old growth trees were effectively logged out in the late 1800 and early 1900s. Mostly second growth exists now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers have practiced varying harvesting, thinning and prescribed burning techniques in study plots here since the 1930s, when the land was gifted to the University of California by a private timber company. One focus area of study is how to manage forest lands to be resilient to wildfire. Some of this is “really cutting edge stuff,” says research scientist Brandon Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold\">Blodgett: No Stranger to Fire\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;font-weight: normal\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;font-weight: normal\">Prior to the Gold Rush, the Blodgett area was a typical mixed-conifer forest, with white fir, Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, sugar pine, incense cedar and California black oak, a hardwood. Here, as throughout the Sierra Nevada, Native people regularly set fire to the land to enhance deer and game habitat and for other benefits.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\n\u003cp>Before the 1849 Gold Rush, fire moved through the forest around every 10- to 12 years, sometimes as frequently as every two years. Starting in the 1890s, parts of the Blodgett forest were logged by oxen teams, later replaced with steam equipment. Almost all of Blodgett, as well as almost all of the Sierra, was logged during the last century. Loggers especially prized pine trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sprouts now from the forest floor is primarily second growth cedars and firs — trees that tolerate shade and crowding but are particularly vulnerable to fire and drought. The property was gifted to the University of California by a private timber company almost 90 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For the past 90 years, all fires on Blodgett have been intentionally set — carefully managed by people trained to bring them under control quickly if needed. That changed in September, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11926715/pge-says-its-under-investigation-for-starting-mosquito-fire-in-sierra-nevada\">the Mosquito Fire, which started near a PG&E line on Sept. 6\u003c/a>, burned rapidly and crossed the northern boundary of Blodgett on the morning of Sept. 9. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blodgett staff had already been evacuated from the area for safety. The fire was considered fully contained on Blodgett by Sept. 11. It burned around 100 acres of the 3,000-acre property. All told, the Mosquito Fire burned 77,000 thousand acres in Placer and El Dorado counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fire damaged control plots for some long-term studies, it opened other opportunities for research. It also underlined the importance of preparing California’s forests for fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Save trees from fire by lighting fires?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Brandon Collins stands in front of what was recently a hillside of young trees, now burnt to blackened crisps by a wildfire. When these trees were alive, the trunks were barely the diameter of an arm or a calf. They now look like a crowd of knobby, emaciated skeletons. They are of no economic value and, unless replanted, risk becoming a field of brush rather than regrowing as a forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about, if we go back in time, what could we have done differently to change the outcome?” asks Rob York, co-director of Berkeley Forests, which manages the study site. This area was clear-cut a few decades ago and left alone ever since. “It’s tricky, right? They’re vulnerable because they’re short trees. It doesn’t take a lot of fire intensity to cause a high-severity fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a white woman stands on a deck showing a fire map in a forest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60398_002_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Roughton, research forest manager at Berkeley Forests, displays a map of the Mosquito Fire at the Blodgett headquarters. Each solid color is the progress of the fire within a single day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Land managers at Blodgett could have thinned it with chain saws or a masticator (which is like a wood chipper on a tractor). Both of these options are tremendously expensive, up to $2,000 an acre, with no monetary return — placing them out of reach for almost all land managers, especially those managing for a commercial timber harvest to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industrial timber managers sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://cal-ipc.org/docs/bmps/dd9jwo1ml8vttq9527zjhek99qr/BMPHerbicide.pdf\">spray herbicide (PDF)\u003c/a> to kill competing vegetation in young stands of trees, again at a price. But the practice is \u003ca href=\"https://www.stopclearcuttingca.org/resources/clearcutting-and-toxic-chemicals/\">unpopular among neighboring communities\u003c/a> and can \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/timberland-herbicide-spraying-sickens-a-community\">sicken exposed people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theoretically, some of the thinned material could be harvested as biomass and incinerated in a cogeneration facility, with profits from energy generation defraying the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in this area and much of the Sierras,” says Ariel Roughton, research forest manager at Berkeley Forests, “that is not a viable option because the infrastructure doesn't exist. [...] There's not really a lot of good answers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11925321,news_11926715,news_11887536"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Research on increasing forest resilience could not be more timely, with many acres of industrial timberland in the state looking similar — young trees growing back after a clear cut — and with the state’s wildfire problem accelerating in an era of climate change, drought and fire suppression. Over the coming years, the economic calculus of what makes financial sense for a timber company might change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could go back in time, I would go back two years ago and do a prescribed fire here,” says York, who is piloting this approach currently at Blodgett. “But it is hard to pull off a prescribed fire in this kind of [young forest] structure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just the day prior to this interview, he conducted a prescribed burn in a forest that looked similar to this stand of trees pre-wildfire. Doing such a fire kills off and consumes some of the trees that could make for a future profit, but it can also inoculate the stand against being entirely destroyed by future fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody’s talking about putting [prescribed] fire in 30-year-old stands. It’s taboo, by the way, for classic forestry,” says Collins. “You'd be burning some of your crop and there are lots of risks and difficulties with doing fire. But maybe if fire loss increases, it'll start to look more viable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is kind of leading a way to a new frontier in forest management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few hundred feet away, over a dirt road, a patch of forest looks quite different from this walking graveyard of small, skinny trees. The Mosquito Fire reached it, too, but then quieted down and became a \"surface fire,\" burning along the ground instead of torching the crowns of the trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring they did a prescribed fire there. Roughton relays what happened when the Mosquito Fire passed from the untreated forest area to the location with the recent prescribed fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"three white people in conversation in a forest with skinny, burned trees\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60402_010_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Collins, lead scientist at Berkeley Forests, speaks about the impacts of the Mosquito Fire and treatment effectiveness at the UC Berkeley Blodgett Forest Research Station. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The [wildfire] came up in this direction and the intensity changed, right? It was high, high-intensity here. And then over on this side,” she said, indicating the other side of the road, “we did see the fire effects change. It still killed some of these trees along the edge, but it did then drop to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to saving trees, the calmer fire behavior allowed firefighters to lay lines of containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But up the road, around a large bend, is a patch of forest that had been diligently treated with beneficial fires. When the Mosquito Fire, running uphill, slammed into it, many trees, even large older ones, still died. Viewed from the road, the trees are mostly dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is actually kind of a sad location for me,” says York, “because I had done the two prescribed fires here in the past, but yet we still see dead trees up in the canopy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a white man in a yellow jacket and blue ball cap walks in a forest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60406_015_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob York is experimenting with techniques to make young tree stands more resilient to wildfire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here, the researchers suspect the landscape had something to do with it. The fire had been making a long run uphill and crested like a powerful wave pounding ashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, York says, deeper into the treated area, “we do start to see green trees. We saw the wildfire behaving like a low-severity fire caused by the prescribed fire we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When wildfire is good fire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For the most part, the Mosquito Fire burned in a moderate, and even mild, way on Blodgett. In a low-intensity fire, stumps may be blackened but remain intact. In a moderate-intensity fire, stumps will be burned deep enough to form charcoal. In a high-severity fire, the stumps are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were really fortunate that it didn't burn more of the property,” said Roughton. “It was, I think, a combination of our forest management, the weather helped us tremendously and then obviously the suppression folks who were out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"swales in a pile in a burned area of forest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60414_016_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the far left, some trees are still green thanks in part to a recent prescribed fire. In the foreground, swales wait to be deployed to reduce erosion in an area badly burned by the Mosquito Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, most of the acres that did burn don’t necessarily look too bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that gets mischaracterized,” says Collins, “is the idea that a wildfire burns and it's all catastrophe, it’s all destroyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reality, he said, these forests are adapted to low- and moderate-severity fires. Even some patches of high-severity fire can be a benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Test-driving new treatments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About a mile away, smoke is still rising like morning mist from a field, in a patch of forest. York burned it just the day before. It had looked similar to the high-density young forest seen at the start of the day, the one that burned up like a matchstick in the Mosquito Fire. Now, it’s opened up. You could walk through the stand without snagging your jacket on sticks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let the fire kill all these small trees,” says York. “We just did it very cheaply and with an ecological process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"smoke can be seen from a prescribed burn in a forest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60456_069_KQED_BlodgettForestResearch_10282022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A prescribed fire continues to smoke from several days prior at the UC Berkeley Blodgett Forest Research Station. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>York will be studying how this stand responds to the fire and whether the expected timber harvest to come from it is much reduced, which he says is still an open question. Heat can kill some parts of the tree’s crown and reduce growth. Yet, the additional space between trees may encourage bigger growth. This stand is also now less likely to be entirely lost in a future fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have some [forestry] friends who really focus on timber as their objective,” says York. “I think they would like this outcome primarily for that reason. We let the fire kill all these small trees. And that was a pretty cheap way to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11933052/the-burn-scars-of-the-sierra-foothills-tell-a-story-and-offer-lessons","authors":["11088"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_31594","news_32031","news_29866","news_30207","news_23932","news_31611","news_20792"],"featImg":"news_11933076","label":"news"},"news_11926715":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11926715","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11926715","score":null,"sort":[1664290828000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pge-says-its-under-investigation-for-starting-mosquito-fire-in-sierra-nevada","title":"PG&E Says It's Under Investigation for Starting Mosquito Fire in Sierra Nevada","publishDate":1664290828,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>PG&E says it's facing a criminal investigation for possibly starting a fire in the Sierra Nevada that has grown to become California's largest wildfire this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement, made in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001004980/000095015722001053/form8-k.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a brief filing Monday\u003c/a> with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, marks the sixth consecutive year in which PG&E has found itself under scrutiny for starting large, damaging and deadly wildfires. [aside postID=\"news_101888674,news_11910835,news_11808166\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E reported earlier this month that \u003ca href=\"https://s1.q4cdn.com/880135780/files/doc_downloads/2022/09/090822.pdf\">it had detected unspecified \"electrical activity\" on a line near a Placer County reservoir\u003c/a> at about the same time the Mosquito Fire started there September 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its SEC filing, the company said U.S. Forest Service investigators have reached \"an initial assessment\" that the fire started near one of its power lines. The utility added that, over the weekend, the Forest Service took possession of a PG&E transmission pole and other possible evidence as part of a criminal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a later statement, PG&E emphasized that the Forest Service has not yet made an official determination about what caused the Mosquito Fire. The service did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its probe, but it often takes investigators many months to reach official determinations about how wildfires started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E is cooperating with the USFS investigation,\" the company's statement said. \"While PG&E is conducting our own investigation into the events that led to the fire, we do not have access to the physical evidence that was collected as part of the USFS investigation over the weekend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/8398/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mosquito Fire\u003c/a> has burned about 77,000 acres in Placer and El Dorado counties and destroyed 78 structures, many of them residences. The blaze is now 85% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has resulted in at least one lawsuit against the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22926970/pge-mosquito-fire-suit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A complaint filed last week\u003c/a> in San Francisco Superior Court accuses the company of operating its electrical network \"recklessly and with conscious disregard for human life and safety\" by prioritizing corporate profits over equipment maintenance and managing vegetation along its 25,000 miles of lines in areas identified as at high risk of wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire investigators have found the utility responsible for major conflagrations in six of the past seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those incidents include the deadliest wildfire in state history, the 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise and killed 85 people, and the largest single wildland blaze in state annals, last year's Dixie Fire, which burned nearly 1 million acres in the northern Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fires have resulted in several criminal prosecutions. PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the Camp Fire, which was sparked when a hook on a nearly century-old transmission tower snapped. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910835/pge-reaches-55-million-deal-to-avoid-criminal-prosecution-in-counties-ravaged-by-recent-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it agreed to a civil settlement\u003c/a> of charges in the Dixie Fire and the 2019 Kincade Fire in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company still faces 31 criminal counts, including involuntary manslaughter, arising from the September 2020 Zogg Fire, which killed four people in rural communities in Shasta County. A preliminary hearing in that case is set for January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other fires started by PG&E equipment include the 2015 Butte Fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes and killed two people in Amador and Calaveras counties, and more than a dozen of the fires that swept the northern part of the state in October 2017 — blazes in which thousands of homes were lost and 22 people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The company says that US Forest Service investigators are conducting a criminal probe into how the 77,000-acre blaze started in early September. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1664299649,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":591},"headData":{"title":"PG&E Says It's Under Investigation for Starting Mosquito Fire in Sierra Nevada | KQED","description":"The company says that US Forest Service investigators are conducting a criminal probe into how the 77,000-acre blaze started in early September. 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The utility added that, over the weekend, the Forest Service took possession of a PG&E transmission pole and other possible evidence as part of a criminal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a later statement, PG&E emphasized that the Forest Service has not yet made an official determination about what caused the Mosquito Fire. The service did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its probe, but it often takes investigators many months to reach official determinations about how wildfires started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E is cooperating with the USFS investigation,\" the company's statement said. \"While PG&E is conducting our own investigation into the events that led to the fire, we do not have access to the physical evidence that was collected as part of the USFS investigation over the weekend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/8398/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mosquito Fire\u003c/a> has burned about 77,000 acres in Placer and El Dorado counties and destroyed 78 structures, many of them residences. The blaze is now 85% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has resulted in at least one lawsuit against the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22926970/pge-mosquito-fire-suit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A complaint filed last week\u003c/a> in San Francisco Superior Court accuses the company of operating its electrical network \"recklessly and with conscious disregard for human life and safety\" by prioritizing corporate profits over equipment maintenance and managing vegetation along its 25,000 miles of lines in areas identified as at high risk of wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire investigators have found the utility responsible for major conflagrations in six of the past seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those incidents include the deadliest wildfire in state history, the 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise and killed 85 people, and the largest single wildland blaze in state annals, last year's Dixie Fire, which burned nearly 1 million acres in the northern Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fires have resulted in several criminal prosecutions. PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the Camp Fire, which was sparked when a hook on a nearly century-old transmission tower snapped. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910835/pge-reaches-55-million-deal-to-avoid-criminal-prosecution-in-counties-ravaged-by-recent-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it agreed to a civil settlement\u003c/a> of charges in the Dixie Fire and the 2019 Kincade Fire in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company still faces 31 criminal counts, including involuntary manslaughter, arising from the September 2020 Zogg Fire, which killed four people in rural communities in Shasta County. A preliminary hearing in that case is set for January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other fires started by PG&E equipment include the 2015 Butte Fire, which destroyed hundreds of homes and killed two people in Amador and Calaveras counties, and more than a dozen of the fires that swept the northern part of the state in October 2017 — blazes in which thousands of homes were lost and 22 people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11926715/pge-says-its-under-investigation-for-starting-mosquito-fire-in-sierra-nevada","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_27626","news_31611","news_140","news_20792","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11926815","label":"news"},"news_11916963":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11916963","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11916963","score":null,"sort":[1655152223000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"wildfires-break-out-in-southern-california-as-new-heatwave-anticipated-in-coming-days","title":"Wildfires Break Out in Southern California as New Heat Wave Anticipated in Coming Days","publishDate":1655152223,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Western U.S. on Monday marked another day of hot, dry and windy weather as crews from California to New Mexico battled wildfires that had forced hundreds of people to leave their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred homes on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Arizona, were evacuated and the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort was closed as a precaution because of a wildfire — the second to hit the area this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews were expecting gusts of up to 50 mph as they battled the blaze that has burned through parts of the footprint left by another springtime fire that destroyed more than two dozen homes. No homes have been lost in the fire that started Sunday and has burned about 8 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's literally like déjà vu,” said Coconino County sheriff's spokesperson Jon Paxton. “We are in the same exact spot doing the same exact thing as we were a month and a half ago. People are tired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires broke out early this spring in multiple states in the Western U.S., where climate change and an enduring drought are fanning the frequency and intensity of forest and grassland fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of square miles burned so far this year is more than double the 10-year national average, and states like New Mexico already have set records with devastating blazes that have destroyed hundreds of homes while causing environmental damage that is expected to effect future water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, more than 6,200 wildland firefighters were battling nearly three dozen uncontained fires that had charred over 1 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Wildfire Coverage\" tag=\"wildfire\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in Alaska, forecasters have warned that many fires in the southwest corner of that state have experienced exceptional growth over the last week, which is unusual for that area. Southwest Alaska normally experiences shorter periods of high fire danger since intermittent rain can provide relief, but since mid-May the region has been hot and windy, helping to dry out vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tundra wildfire has moved closer to the Alaska Native community of St. Mary's, but mandatory evacuations have not been ordered. Firefighters are working to strengthen primary and secondary fire lines protecting St. Mary’s and other nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, evacuation orders were in place Monday for remote homes near a wildfire that flared up over the weekend northeast of Los Angeles near the Pacific Crest Trail in the San Gabriel Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze saw renewed growth Sunday afternoon and by nighttime had scorched about 1.5 square miles of pine trees and dry brush, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from mandatory evacuations for some residents, the remainder of the mountain town of Wrightwood, with about 4,500 residents, was under an evacuation warning. Several roads also were closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the west in Los Angeles County, firefighters quickly corralled a wildfire that erupted Sunday in the foothills above Duarte. No homes were threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire conditions were elevated because of warm and dry weekend weather across Southern California. Monday was expected to be cooler, but another heat wave was expected at midweek, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Northern California, a 50-mile stretch of State Route 70 was closed indefinitely on Monday after mud, boulders and dead trees inundated lanes during flash floods along a wildfire burn scar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several drivers were rescued Sunday evening from debris flowing on the highway in Butte and Plumas counties when hillsides burned bare by last year’s enormous Dixie Fire came loose. No injuries were reported. There was no estimate for when the mountain route might reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the latest California fires were under investigation, while U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officers in Arizona arrested and charged a 57-year-old man with sparking the Arizona blaze by lighting toilet paper on fire and placing it under a rock while camping. The man told authorities he had tried to use his sleeping bag to stamp out the fire but was unsuccessful.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Janetta Kathleen, Flagstaff resident\"]'I need to know what's going on because I have decisions to make for my family.'[/pullquote]Flagstaff resident Janetta Kathleen rode her horse, Squish, up a hill to get a better look at the wildfire Sunday evening and watched it creep toward homes in the shadow of the mountain. Her home isn't directly in the fire's path, but her family, two bulldogs and horses are ready to go at a moment's notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to know what's going on because I have decisions to make for my family,” she said. “If the winds shift, we'll be in trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Euelda King and her family of 11 evacuated Sunday, still not settled back in from the earlier springtime wildfire. This time, she was able to grab photographs and clothing she didn't get earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we go again,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hikers, campers and others who were out enjoying the forest also had to leave Sunday. A shelter was set up at a middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong winds sent embers across U.S. Route 89, the main route to the turnoff for the Grand Canyon's east rim entrance, through the Navajo Nation and up into Utah. Many people commute between the reservation and Flagstaff for work. Parts of the highway remained closed Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're not working directly on suppressing the fire to get the whole thing out right now,” said Coconino National Forest spokesperson Brady Smith. “That's not our focus and it's not possible right now. Right now, it's going to be focused on protecting life and property.\"[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Brady Smith, spokesperson, Coconino National Forest\"]'We're not working directly on suppressing the fire to get the whole thing out right now. That's not our focus and it's not possible right now.'[/pullquote]Smoke from the fire near Flagstaff caused hazy skies in Colorado on Monday, obscuring views of the Rocky Mountains from Denver and other cities along the state’s Front Range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, firefighters worked to contain a small wildfire burning in juniper and pinion pine that briefly caused evacuation orders Sunday in the San Luis Valley’s Rio Grande National Forest in southern Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued red flag warnings for high fire danger in central and southern parts of Colorado as well as parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; Mark Thiessen in Anchorage, Alaska; Jim Anderson in Denver; and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Evacuation orders were in place Monday for remote homes near a wildfire that flared up over the weekend northeast of Los Angeles near the Pacific Crest Trail in the San Gabriel Mountains. To the west of Los Angeles County, firefighters quickly corralled a wildfire that erupted Sunday in the foothills above Duarte.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1655235755,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1130},"headData":{"title":"Wildfires Break Out in Southern California as New Heat Wave Anticipated in Coming Days | KQED","description":"Evacuation orders were in place Monday for remote homes near a wildfire that flared up over the weekend northeast of Los Angeles near the Pacific Crest Trail in the San Gabriel Mountains. To the west of Los Angeles County, firefighters quickly corralled a wildfire that erupted Sunday in the foothills above Duarte.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Wildfires Break Out in Southern California as New Heat Wave Anticipated in Coming Days","datePublished":"2022-06-13T20:30:23.000Z","dateModified":"2022-06-14T19:42:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11916963 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11916963","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/06/13/wildfires-break-out-in-southern-california-as-new-heatwave-anticipated-in-coming-days/","disqusTitle":"Wildfires Break Out in Southern California as New Heat Wave Anticipated in Coming Days","nprByline":"Felicia Fonseca\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11916963/wildfires-break-out-in-southern-california-as-new-heatwave-anticipated-in-coming-days","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Western U.S. on Monday marked another day of hot, dry and windy weather as crews from California to New Mexico battled wildfires that had forced hundreds of people to leave their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hundred homes on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Arizona, were evacuated and the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort was closed as a precaution because of a wildfire — the second to hit the area this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews were expecting gusts of up to 50 mph as they battled the blaze that has burned through parts of the footprint left by another springtime fire that destroyed more than two dozen homes. No homes have been lost in the fire that started Sunday and has burned about 8 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's literally like déjà vu,” said Coconino County sheriff's spokesperson Jon Paxton. “We are in the same exact spot doing the same exact thing as we were a month and a half ago. People are tired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires broke out early this spring in multiple states in the Western U.S., where climate change and an enduring drought are fanning the frequency and intensity of forest and grassland fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of square miles burned so far this year is more than double the 10-year national average, and states like New Mexico already have set records with devastating blazes that have destroyed hundreds of homes while causing environmental damage that is expected to effect future water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, more than 6,200 wildland firefighters were battling nearly three dozen uncontained fires that had charred over 1 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Wildfire Coverage ","tag":"wildfire"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in Alaska, forecasters have warned that many fires in the southwest corner of that state have experienced exceptional growth over the last week, which is unusual for that area. Southwest Alaska normally experiences shorter periods of high fire danger since intermittent rain can provide relief, but since mid-May the region has been hot and windy, helping to dry out vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tundra wildfire has moved closer to the Alaska Native community of St. Mary's, but mandatory evacuations have not been ordered. Firefighters are working to strengthen primary and secondary fire lines protecting St. Mary’s and other nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, evacuation orders were in place Monday for remote homes near a wildfire that flared up over the weekend northeast of Los Angeles near the Pacific Crest Trail in the San Gabriel Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze saw renewed growth Sunday afternoon and by nighttime had scorched about 1.5 square miles of pine trees and dry brush, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from mandatory evacuations for some residents, the remainder of the mountain town of Wrightwood, with about 4,500 residents, was under an evacuation warning. Several roads also were closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the west in Los Angeles County, firefighters quickly corralled a wildfire that erupted Sunday in the foothills above Duarte. No homes were threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire conditions were elevated because of warm and dry weekend weather across Southern California. Monday was expected to be cooler, but another heat wave was expected at midweek, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Northern California, a 50-mile stretch of State Route 70 was closed indefinitely on Monday after mud, boulders and dead trees inundated lanes during flash floods along a wildfire burn scar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several drivers were rescued Sunday evening from debris flowing on the highway in Butte and Plumas counties when hillsides burned bare by last year’s enormous Dixie Fire came loose. No injuries were reported. There was no estimate for when the mountain route might reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the latest California fires were under investigation, while U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officers in Arizona arrested and charged a 57-year-old man with sparking the Arizona blaze by lighting toilet paper on fire and placing it under a rock while camping. The man told authorities he had tried to use his sleeping bag to stamp out the fire but was unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I need to know what's going on because I have decisions to make for my family.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Janetta Kathleen, Flagstaff resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Flagstaff resident Janetta Kathleen rode her horse, Squish, up a hill to get a better look at the wildfire Sunday evening and watched it creep toward homes in the shadow of the mountain. Her home isn't directly in the fire's path, but her family, two bulldogs and horses are ready to go at a moment's notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to know what's going on because I have decisions to make for my family,” she said. “If the winds shift, we'll be in trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Euelda King and her family of 11 evacuated Sunday, still not settled back in from the earlier springtime wildfire. This time, she was able to grab photographs and clothing she didn't get earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we go again,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hikers, campers and others who were out enjoying the forest also had to leave Sunday. A shelter was set up at a middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong winds sent embers across U.S. Route 89, the main route to the turnoff for the Grand Canyon's east rim entrance, through the Navajo Nation and up into Utah. Many people commute between the reservation and Flagstaff for work. Parts of the highway remained closed Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're not working directly on suppressing the fire to get the whole thing out right now,” said Coconino National Forest spokesperson Brady Smith. “That's not our focus and it's not possible right now. Right now, it's going to be focused on protecting life and property.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We're not working directly on suppressing the fire to get the whole thing out right now. That's not our focus and it's not possible right now.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Brady Smith, spokesperson, Coconino National Forest","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Smoke from the fire near Flagstaff caused hazy skies in Colorado on Monday, obscuring views of the Rocky Mountains from Denver and other cities along the state’s Front Range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, firefighters worked to contain a small wildfire burning in juniper and pinion pine that briefly caused evacuation orders Sunday in the San Luis Valley’s Rio Grande National Forest in southern Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued red flag warnings for high fire danger in central and southern parts of Colorado as well as parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; Mark Thiessen in Anchorage, Alaska; Jim Anderson in Denver; and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11916963/wildfires-break-out-in-southern-california-as-new-heatwave-anticipated-in-coming-days","authors":["byline_news_11916963"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_21477","news_20341","news_29684","news_461","news_31224","news_31225","news_20792","news_4337"],"featImg":"news_11916987","label":"news"},"news_11916911":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11916911","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11916911","score":null,"sort":[1655066011000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"federal-firefighters-are-waiting-for-pay-raises-they-hope-will-help-fill-their-ranks","title":"Federal Firefighters Are Waiting for Pay Raises They Hope Will Help Fill Their Ranks","publishDate":1655066011,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>For over a decade, the U.S. Forest Service has faced retention and recruitment issues that have resulted in a depleted workforce while fire seasons worsen and the Biden administration is increasing pressure to reduce wildfire risks across the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal wildland firefighters have entered another fire summer of broken records. The two largest wildfires in New Mexico's history, the Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak Fire in the Santa Fe National Forest and the Black Fire in the Gila National Forest, are currently under way, prompting a visit on Saturday by President Biden. Fire seasons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/06/27/wildfires-all-seasons\">warns the Agriculture Department\u003c/a>, are becoming longer and harder to control leading to intense \"fire years.\"[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Randy Erwin, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees union\"]'Firefighters who do not get the raise will undoubtedly feel undervalued and many will certainly quit.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And firefighters are also tasked with carrying out the administration's \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2022/01/18/secretary-vilsack-announces-new-10-year-strategy-confront-wildfire\">10-year plan for reducing the risk of wildfires\u003c/a>, which would involve increasing work on 50 million additional acres of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But continued low wages, benefits and staffing have depleted morale among the ranks and despite congressional and Biden administration action, eyes are on the agencies and Congress to deliver solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal wildland firefighters are spread across the Agriculture and Interior departments and within agencies that fall under them, such as the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This unique workforce is the first line of defense for public lands and also has the capability to travel across state lines and country borders to fight fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to May staffing data provided by the Forest Service to NPR, six out of nine regions have staffing levels below last year's hiring peak, which around July was 11,480 employees. The biggest vacancies are in the Pacific Northwest, which is 24% below, and California, which is 15% below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wide variety of factors contribute to the shortages, including noncompetitive pay and lack of affordable housing, according to the Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data obtained by NPR on California's May spring fire hire rates shows the state, which makes up its own region, has 1,637 vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Already in Oregon, there is a 20% vacancy rate in these positions and Western states are actually trying to borrow firefighters from each other,\" said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2022/6/full-committee-hearing-to-examine-the-president-s-fy-2023-budget-request-for-the-u-s-forest-service\">during a Thursday hearing\u003c/a> featuring Forest Service Chief Randy Moore. \"Chief, that is a recipe for trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 1, National Federation of Federal Employees President Randy Erwin, the union representing a majority of federal wildland firefighters, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WuNDwBv7jbsviDEvDqARBtPzTZGecsV-/view\">sent a letter to Biden officials \u003c/a>calling for immediate action in raising wages for federal wildland firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Firefighters who do not get the raise will undoubtedly feel undervalued and many will certainly quit,\" Erwin wrote. \"Recruitment and retention in these locations will go from difficult to impossible, which would significantly jeopardize our nation's ability to fight wildfires and protect communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shortages strike across the West\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111shrg56720/pdf/CHRG-111shrg56720.pdf\">2010 special hearing\u003c/a>, officials were questioned by lawmakers over the shortages, including among senior-level firefighters. But while staffing shortages have continued, higher cost of living and pay elsewhere has also increased — putting at risk the federal response to wildfires and preventing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly every hearing Moore has appeared in since\u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/news/releases/agriculture-secretary-tom-vilsack-announces-randy-moore-new-forest-service-chief\"> taking his post last summer\u003c/a>, he has received questions from senators and representatives regarding staffing capacity and wages. Meanwhile, federal firefighting groups have even taken to social media calling for applicants to open positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore told lawmakers on Thursday that as of June, the department has hired 10,184 firefighters. That's 90% of the 11,300 targeted for this year, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the breakdown of vacancies shared with NPR, Region 1, which includes parts of Idaho, Montana and North Dakota, is down 13% from its peak; Region 4, which includes more of Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming, is short 9%; Region 3, New Mexico and Arizona, is down 6%; and Region 2, which is more of Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, is down 3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some regions, including 8, 9 and 10, which make up the Southeast, Northeast and Alaska, are facing staffing levels 12 to 30% above last year's peak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In\u003ca href=\"https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/-a-review-of-the-fiscal-year-2023-presidents-budget-for-the-us-forest-service\"> a hearing at the start of May\u003c/a>, Moore cited the same 90% statistic — adding that some regions were, at the time, facing more dire vacancy levels of up to 50% and that although offers were going out, the department was facing declinations as they are unable to compete with higher paying industries and companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates are skeptical about the 90% statistic because they say it could include hires that have not started yet, will never show up, or may have even applied and secured roles in multiple regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People would apply in October and we would do the hiring in December and they don't come on until May so in that period of time most people have found another job and so we counted somebody as hired but you have no idea if they are going to be there until the day they are supposed to show up,\" said Maximo Alonzo, an NFFE representative who used to manage temporary hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., who has previously questioned Moore on staffing levels, told NPR that her office is hearing of regions that are understaffed as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality is we are dealing with a workforce that was built for the era of before we had this year-round extreme weather and fire season,\" Porter said. \"It's bad for our firefighters, it's bad for our natural resources and it's bad for all of us as taxpayers. It is expensive to have to bring in last-minute resources to hire contractors, to hire from a local fire department. The worse the staffing situation, the more the price goes up for taxpayers and we need to be prepared for what's ahead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Firefighters called for an increase in pay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Biden announced the increase of the minimum federal wage for wildland firefighters to $15 an hour, about $31,000 a year. Prior to that, entry-level firefighters were making about $13 an hour. Firefighters who leave the federal government often find higher-paying jobs with state or private outfits. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection pays entry-level firefighters about $55,000 a year, not including overtime and hazard pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the $2 increase was applauded by worker advocates, agency leaders and employees, many agree that it is still not enough. Firefighters are forced to rely on overtime pay, which can total over 1,000 hours in a summer, a risky bet in a job that could lead to injuries or extended time off. Managers have suggested to some firefighters that they start a GoFundMe or referred them to charities to offset lost income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The $15 was not enough before they even did it,\" said a federal wildland firefighter of 15 years who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. \"That's just the federal minimum wage. So it doesn't seem appropriate to be paying wildland firefighters, who are doing super-dangerous work with unique and abnormal schedules, it doesn't make sense that they're paid the lowest that you could pay anybody. Especially with how necessary the work is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in November, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055841358/biden-signs-1t-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-into-law\">Biden signed into law the bipartisan infrastructure bill\u003c/a>. The\u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/delivering-mission/excel/wildland-firefighter-pay-classification-infrastructure-law#:~:text=There%20is%20%24600%2C000%2C000%20available%20in%20the%20law%20for%20salaries%20and%20expenses%20(%24480%2C000%2C000%20for%20USDA%20FS%20and%20%24120%2C000%2C000%20for%20DOI)\"> bill included $600 million for the Agriculture and Interior Departments\u003c/a> to increase their firefighter wages. Specifically, $480 million would go to USDA's Forest Service to create a \"pay supplement\" for workers of $20,000 or 50% of their salary, whichever is less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money is estimated by officials to last about two years and will be retroactive to October 2021. Moore\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2022/6/full-committee-hearing-to-examine-the-president-s-fy-2023-budget-request-for-the-u-s-forest-service\"> told lawmakers on Thursday during the hearing\u003c/a> that checks are expected to start going out by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the pay provision in the bipartisan infrastructure law is really important ... it's not a permanent fix,\" said Deputy Forest Service Chief Jaelith Hall-Rivera during a Forest Service employee-only town hall on May 25 for which the recording was obtained by NPR. \"And we know that and really our goal is to get towards a permanent pay increase for our wildland firefighters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill requires the pay increases to be applied in hard to recruit and retain geographic areas and officials are working for that definition to be as broad and inclusive as possible, Hall-Rivera said during the town hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll tell you what that geographic area is: the United States of America,\" said Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, to Moore during the hearing on Thursday. \"Tell [Agriculture Secretary] Tom Vilsack. Anybody in this room could tell you. It's difficult to retain and hire firefighters anywhere, particularly in the West.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congress imposed the geographic retention and recruitment requirement even if Vilsack will ultimately decide who is eligible to receive the supplemental pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are urging Vilsack to declare all areas as hard to recruit and retain in order to promptly deliver the funding and move on to finding a more permanent solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not even a pay raise. It's actually a stipend. It's a supplement,\" said Kelly Martin, president of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, an advocacy group pushing for higher pay. \"So it doesn't even affect their hourly wage. It doesn't help with their retirement savings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bipartisan infrastructure bill also required the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to create a new classification series for federal wildland firefighters, which could increase the wages for some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials told firefighters on the May 25 call that there are still a lot of unanswered questions. For example, Congress requires that the new firefighter series be finalized by OPM within 180 days of the law being enacted. The result of the sped-up time frame is Forest Service officials and employees will not be able to see a draft of what the new work series is, only a finalized version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials told employees that they are still working to figure out what to do when the infrastructure bill funding runs out and the pay supplements stop — effectively creating a cliff for wages. One of the options is requesting a special salary rate and implementing it in time for when the funding runs out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But officials noted even that has its hurdles, including making sure that Congress itself provides additional funding for salaries to support any increase in wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the budget request for the next fiscal year, the Forest Service has asked for $1.15 billion for wildland fire management salaries and expenses but lawmakers will draft their own legislation regardless of the budget asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Federal+firefighters+are+waiting+for+pay+raises+they+hope+will+help+fill+their+ranks&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While they face longer and hotter wildfire seasons, federal firefighters are also battling staffing shortages in six of the nine regions across the country.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1655134569,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1817},"headData":{"title":"Federal Firefighters Are Waiting for Pay Raises They Hope Will Help Fill Their Ranks | KQED","description":"While they face longer and hotter wildfire seasons, federal firefighters are also battling staffing shortages in six of the nine regions across the country.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Federal Firefighters Are Waiting for Pay Raises They Hope Will Help Fill Their Ranks","datePublished":"2022-06-12T20:33:31.000Z","dateModified":"2022-06-13T15:36:09.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11916911 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11916911","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/06/12/federal-firefighters-are-waiting-for-pay-raises-they-hope-will-help-fill-their-ranks/","disqusTitle":"Federal Firefighters Are Waiting for Pay Raises They Hope Will Help Fill Their Ranks","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Allison Dinner","nprByline":"Ximena Bustillo","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1103982837","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1103982837&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/11/1103982837/federal-firefighters-waiting-for-pay-raises-they-hope-will-help-fill-their-ranks?ft=nprml&f=1103982837","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sat, 11 Jun 2022 09:07:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sat, 11 Jun 2022 05:00:45 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sat, 11 Jun 2022 09:07:02 -0400","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11916911/federal-firefighters-are-waiting-for-pay-raises-they-hope-will-help-fill-their-ranks","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For over a decade, the U.S. Forest Service has faced retention and recruitment issues that have resulted in a depleted workforce while fire seasons worsen and the Biden administration is increasing pressure to reduce wildfire risks across the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal wildland firefighters have entered another fire summer of broken records. The two largest wildfires in New Mexico's history, the Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak Fire in the Santa Fe National Forest and the Black Fire in the Gila National Forest, are currently under way, prompting a visit on Saturday by President Biden. Fire seasons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/06/27/wildfires-all-seasons\">warns the Agriculture Department\u003c/a>, are becoming longer and harder to control leading to intense \"fire years.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Firefighters who do not get the raise will undoubtedly feel undervalued and many will certainly quit.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Randy Erwin, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees union","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And firefighters are also tasked with carrying out the administration's \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2022/01/18/secretary-vilsack-announces-new-10-year-strategy-confront-wildfire\">10-year plan for reducing the risk of wildfires\u003c/a>, which would involve increasing work on 50 million additional acres of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But continued low wages, benefits and staffing have depleted morale among the ranks and despite congressional and Biden administration action, eyes are on the agencies and Congress to deliver solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal wildland firefighters are spread across the Agriculture and Interior departments and within agencies that fall under them, such as the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This unique workforce is the first line of defense for public lands and also has the capability to travel across state lines and country borders to fight fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to May staffing data provided by the Forest Service to NPR, six out of nine regions have staffing levels below last year's hiring peak, which around July was 11,480 employees. The biggest vacancies are in the Pacific Northwest, which is 24% below, and California, which is 15% below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wide variety of factors contribute to the shortages, including noncompetitive pay and lack of affordable housing, according to the Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data obtained by NPR on California's May spring fire hire rates shows the state, which makes up its own region, has 1,637 vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Already in Oregon, there is a 20% vacancy rate in these positions and Western states are actually trying to borrow firefighters from each other,\" said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2022/6/full-committee-hearing-to-examine-the-president-s-fy-2023-budget-request-for-the-u-s-forest-service\">during a Thursday hearing\u003c/a> featuring Forest Service Chief Randy Moore. \"Chief, that is a recipe for trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 1, National Federation of Federal Employees President Randy Erwin, the union representing a majority of federal wildland firefighters, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WuNDwBv7jbsviDEvDqARBtPzTZGecsV-/view\">sent a letter to Biden officials \u003c/a>calling for immediate action in raising wages for federal wildland firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Firefighters who do not get the raise will undoubtedly feel undervalued and many will certainly quit,\" Erwin wrote. \"Recruitment and retention in these locations will go from difficult to impossible, which would significantly jeopardize our nation's ability to fight wildfires and protect communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shortages strike across the West\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111shrg56720/pdf/CHRG-111shrg56720.pdf\">2010 special hearing\u003c/a>, officials were questioned by lawmakers over the shortages, including among senior-level firefighters. But while staffing shortages have continued, higher cost of living and pay elsewhere has also increased — putting at risk the federal response to wildfires and preventing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly every hearing Moore has appeared in since\u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/news/releases/agriculture-secretary-tom-vilsack-announces-randy-moore-new-forest-service-chief\"> taking his post last summer\u003c/a>, he has received questions from senators and representatives regarding staffing capacity and wages. Meanwhile, federal firefighting groups have even taken to social media calling for applicants to open positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore told lawmakers on Thursday that as of June, the department has hired 10,184 firefighters. That's 90% of the 11,300 targeted for this year, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the breakdown of vacancies shared with NPR, Region 1, which includes parts of Idaho, Montana and North Dakota, is down 13% from its peak; Region 4, which includes more of Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming, is short 9%; Region 3, New Mexico and Arizona, is down 6%; and Region 2, which is more of Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, is down 3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some regions, including 8, 9 and 10, which make up the Southeast, Northeast and Alaska, are facing staffing levels 12 to 30% above last year's peak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In\u003ca href=\"https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/-a-review-of-the-fiscal-year-2023-presidents-budget-for-the-us-forest-service\"> a hearing at the start of May\u003c/a>, Moore cited the same 90% statistic — adding that some regions were, at the time, facing more dire vacancy levels of up to 50% and that although offers were going out, the department was facing declinations as they are unable to compete with higher paying industries and companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates are skeptical about the 90% statistic because they say it could include hires that have not started yet, will never show up, or may have even applied and secured roles in multiple regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People would apply in October and we would do the hiring in December and they don't come on until May so in that period of time most people have found another job and so we counted somebody as hired but you have no idea if they are going to be there until the day they are supposed to show up,\" said Maximo Alonzo, an NFFE representative who used to manage temporary hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., who has previously questioned Moore on staffing levels, told NPR that her office is hearing of regions that are understaffed as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality is we are dealing with a workforce that was built for the era of before we had this year-round extreme weather and fire season,\" Porter said. \"It's bad for our firefighters, it's bad for our natural resources and it's bad for all of us as taxpayers. It is expensive to have to bring in last-minute resources to hire contractors, to hire from a local fire department. The worse the staffing situation, the more the price goes up for taxpayers and we need to be prepared for what's ahead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Firefighters called for an increase in pay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Biden announced the increase of the minimum federal wage for wildland firefighters to $15 an hour, about $31,000 a year. Prior to that, entry-level firefighters were making about $13 an hour. Firefighters who leave the federal government often find higher-paying jobs with state or private outfits. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection pays entry-level firefighters about $55,000 a year, not including overtime and hazard pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the $2 increase was applauded by worker advocates, agency leaders and employees, many agree that it is still not enough. Firefighters are forced to rely on overtime pay, which can total over 1,000 hours in a summer, a risky bet in a job that could lead to injuries or extended time off. Managers have suggested to some firefighters that they start a GoFundMe or referred them to charities to offset lost income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The $15 was not enough before they even did it,\" said a federal wildland firefighter of 15 years who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. \"That's just the federal minimum wage. So it doesn't seem appropriate to be paying wildland firefighters, who are doing super-dangerous work with unique and abnormal schedules, it doesn't make sense that they're paid the lowest that you could pay anybody. Especially with how necessary the work is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in November, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055841358/biden-signs-1t-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-into-law\">Biden signed into law the bipartisan infrastructure bill\u003c/a>. The\u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/delivering-mission/excel/wildland-firefighter-pay-classification-infrastructure-law#:~:text=There%20is%20%24600%2C000%2C000%20available%20in%20the%20law%20for%20salaries%20and%20expenses%20(%24480%2C000%2C000%20for%20USDA%20FS%20and%20%24120%2C000%2C000%20for%20DOI)\"> bill included $600 million for the Agriculture and Interior Departments\u003c/a> to increase their firefighter wages. Specifically, $480 million would go to USDA's Forest Service to create a \"pay supplement\" for workers of $20,000 or 50% of their salary, whichever is less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money is estimated by officials to last about two years and will be retroactive to October 2021. Moore\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2022/6/full-committee-hearing-to-examine-the-president-s-fy-2023-budget-request-for-the-u-s-forest-service\"> told lawmakers on Thursday during the hearing\u003c/a> that checks are expected to start going out by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the pay provision in the bipartisan infrastructure law is really important ... it's not a permanent fix,\" said Deputy Forest Service Chief Jaelith Hall-Rivera during a Forest Service employee-only town hall on May 25 for which the recording was obtained by NPR. \"And we know that and really our goal is to get towards a permanent pay increase for our wildland firefighters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill requires the pay increases to be applied in hard to recruit and retain geographic areas and officials are working for that definition to be as broad and inclusive as possible, Hall-Rivera said during the town hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll tell you what that geographic area is: the United States of America,\" said Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, to Moore during the hearing on Thursday. \"Tell [Agriculture Secretary] Tom Vilsack. Anybody in this room could tell you. It's difficult to retain and hire firefighters anywhere, particularly in the West.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congress imposed the geographic retention and recruitment requirement even if Vilsack will ultimately decide who is eligible to receive the supplemental pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are urging Vilsack to declare all areas as hard to recruit and retain in order to promptly deliver the funding and move on to finding a more permanent solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not even a pay raise. It's actually a stipend. It's a supplement,\" said Kelly Martin, president of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, an advocacy group pushing for higher pay. \"So it doesn't even affect their hourly wage. It doesn't help with their retirement savings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bipartisan infrastructure bill also required the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to create a new classification series for federal wildland firefighters, which could increase the wages for some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials told firefighters on the May 25 call that there are still a lot of unanswered questions. For example, Congress requires that the new firefighter series be finalized by OPM within 180 days of the law being enacted. The result of the sped-up time frame is Forest Service officials and employees will not be able to see a draft of what the new work series is, only a finalized version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials told employees that they are still working to figure out what to do when the infrastructure bill funding runs out and the pay supplements stop — effectively creating a cliff for wages. 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To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Federal+firefighters+are+waiting+for+pay+raises+they+hope+will+help+fill+their+ranks&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11916911/federal-firefighters-are-waiting-for-pay-raises-they-hope-will-help-fill-their-ranks","authors":["byline_news_11916911"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_31218","news_31220","news_20792","news_4252","news_31219"],"featImg":"news_11916915","label":"source_news_11916911"},"news_11887061":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11887061","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11887061","score":null,"sort":[1630447893000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"only-you-can-stay-out-of-the-forests","title":"Only You ... Can Stay out of the Forests","publishDate":1630447893,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-11887072 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final.png\" alt=\"A sign that reads, "Fire Danger 'Ridiculous' Today," "National Forests Closed." Smokey the Bear is in firefighting gear on the sign as well.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1347\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final-800x561.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final-1020x716.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final-1536x1078.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the extreme risk of wildfire, the U.S. Forest Service is \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorefirenationalforests\">closing every national forest in California\u003c/a> starting at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Caldor Fire raging across the Sierra and dangerously dry conditions persisting across the state, the Forest Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd949147.pdf\">issued a news release\u003c/a> announcing the closure, citing the 6,800 wildfires and 1.7 million acres that have already burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure is expected to end on Sept. 17. Fingers crossed we get some moisture by then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incidentally, had it not been for Smokey Bear's extreme devotion to fire suppression, there might be less underbrush fueling fires throughout the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Due to the extreme risk of wildfire, the U.S. Forest Service is closing every national forest in California starting Tuesday night.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1630449100,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":110},"headData":{"title":"Only You ... 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Can Stay out of the Forests","path":"/news/11887061/only-you-can-stay-out-of-the-forests","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-11887072 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final.png\" alt=\"A sign that reads, "Fire Danger 'Ridiculous' Today," "National Forests Closed." Smokey the Bear is in firefighting gear on the sign as well.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1347\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final-800x561.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final-1020x716.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ridiculous_083121_final-1536x1078.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the extreme risk of wildfire, the U.S. Forest Service is \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorefirenationalforests\">closing every national forest in California\u003c/a> starting at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Caldor Fire raging across the Sierra and dangerously dry conditions persisting across the state, the Forest Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd949147.pdf\">issued a news release\u003c/a> announcing the closure, citing the 6,800 wildfires and 1.7 million acres that have already burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure is expected to end on Sept. 17. Fingers crossed we get some moisture by then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incidentally, had it not been for Smokey Bear's extreme devotion to fire suppression, there might be less underbrush fueling fires throughout the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11887061/only-you-can-stay-out-of-the-forests","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_19906"],"tags":["news_29842","news_21959","news_20949","news_20792","news_29854","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11887072","label":"news_18515"},"news_11839556":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11839556","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11839556","score":null,"sort":[1601038803000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-a-first-100-mexican-firefighters-arrive-in-california-to-help-battle-wildfires","title":"In a First, 100 Mexican Firefighters Arrive in California to Help Battle Wildfires","publishDate":1601038803,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>About 100 wildland firefighters from Mexico arrived in California on Wednesday to assist with firefighting efforts in Sequoia National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the five crews, who hail from 22 different states across Mexico, flew into San Bernardino International Airport, where they attended a brief welcome event and orientation before heading to the front lines of the Castle Fire in Tulare County, just south of Sequoia National Park. That fire is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/7048/56270/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sequoia Complex\u003c/a> that has already charred nearly 145,000 acres since late August and remains only 35% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service and CONAFOR, its Mexican equivalent, have long participated in joint training programs. But have never had this many firefighters from Mexico come to the U.S. to assist in suppression efforts, according to Julissa Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service. The crews will work on the fire for at least 14 days, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexican crews were requested through the U.S. National Interagency Fire Center, which coordinates with foreign wildfire agencies during particularly overwhelming fire seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group of 101 Mexican firefighters attending a brief training course on Sept. 23, 2020 before heading to the Fire near Sequoia National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Fires do not have borders, fires do not have different languages and cultures,” said Eduardo Cruz, director of CONAFOR, during Wednesday’s reception. “In the end we all speak the same language when it comes to fighting fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz, whose firefighters will work alongside U.S Forest Service crews as part of a partnership with that agency, noted that early in his career he had spent a season as a helideck firefighter in Sequoia National Forest as part of a training and exchange program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/R5_Fire_News/status/1309005524525027331\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very excited for this unique opportunity to visit a station I worked and trained at as a young man and to bring with me firefighters from Mexico to aid in the California firefighting effort,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"california-wildfires\"]CONAFOR is able to spare the crews because there are currently very few active fires in Mexico, where the summer and early fall mark the rainy season in most of the country, the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the sometimes prickly relations between the U.S. and Mexico under the Trump administration, the additional assistance from south of the border has been welcomed with open arms by U.S. fire management agencies, whose resources are stretched to the limit this year, with massive blazes up and down the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're proud to have them here, and thank you for coming to help us,\" USFS Deputy Regional Forester Tony Scardina said in welcome video on Twitter, noting \"the unprecedented fire situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California alone, crews are currently battling 26 major wildfires, with over 18,200 firefighters on the front lines, including crews from Canada and the U.S. National Guard. Since the beginning of the year, more than 8,000 wildfires have burned over 3.6 million acres across the state — an area larger than Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This opportunity, to see 100 firefighters from Mexico, the country where I was born and I identify [with], come to support the U.S., the country where I live and love — this is a wonderful story of collaboration and partnership,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The five Mexican crews will join U.S. Forest Service firefighters on the front lines of the Sequoia Complex. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1601060395,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":576},"headData":{"title":"In a First, 100 Mexican Firefighters Arrive in California to Help Battle Wildfires | KQED","description":"The five Mexican crews will join U.S. Forest Service firefighters on the front lines of the Sequoia Complex. 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That fire is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/7048/56270/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sequoia Complex\u003c/a> that has already charred nearly 145,000 acres since late August and remains only 35% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service and CONAFOR, its Mexican equivalent, have long participated in joint training programs. But have never had this many firefighters from Mexico come to the U.S. to assist in suppression efforts, according to Julissa Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service. The crews will work on the fire for at least 14 days, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexican crews were requested through the U.S. National Interagency Fire Center, which coordinates with foreign wildfire agencies during particularly overwhelming fire seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11839568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11839568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/50379608677_58e5571676_o-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group of 101 Mexican firefighters attending a brief training course on Sept. 23, 2020 before heading to the Fire near Sequoia National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Fires do not have borders, fires do not have different languages and cultures,” said Eduardo Cruz, director of CONAFOR, during Wednesday’s reception. “In the end we all speak the same language when it comes to fighting fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz, whose firefighters will work alongside U.S Forest Service crews as part of a partnership with that agency, noted that early in his career he had spent a season as a helideck firefighter in Sequoia National Forest as part of a training and exchange program.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1309005524525027331"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“I am very excited for this unique opportunity to visit a station I worked and trained at as a young man and to bring with me firefighters from Mexico to aid in the California firefighting effort,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"california-wildfires"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>CONAFOR is able to spare the crews because there are currently very few active fires in Mexico, where the summer and early fall mark the rainy season in most of the country, the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the sometimes prickly relations between the U.S. and Mexico under the Trump administration, the additional assistance from south of the border has been welcomed with open arms by U.S. fire management agencies, whose resources are stretched to the limit this year, with massive blazes up and down the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're proud to have them here, and thank you for coming to help us,\" USFS Deputy Regional Forester Tony Scardina said in welcome video on Twitter, noting \"the unprecedented fire situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California alone, crews are currently battling 26 major wildfires, with over 18,200 firefighters on the front lines, including crews from Canada and the U.S. National Guard. Since the beginning of the year, more than 8,000 wildfires have burned over 3.6 million acres across the state — an area larger than Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This opportunity, to see 100 firefighters from Mexico, the country where I was born and I identify [with], come to support the U.S., the country where I live and love — this is a wonderful story of collaboration and partnership,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11839556/in-a-first-100-mexican-firefighters-arrive-in-california-to-help-battle-wildfires","authors":["1263"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_28440","news_20341","news_2403","news_28589","news_20792"],"featImg":"news_11839565","label":"news"},"news_11752447":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11752447","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11752447","score":null,"sort":[1559751189000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"1-billion-acres-at-risk-for-catastrophic-wildfires-u-s-forest-service-warns","title":"1 Billion Acres at Risk for Catastrophic Wildfires, U.S. Forest Service Warns","publishDate":1559751189,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The chief of the U.S. Forest Service is warning that a billion acres of land across America are at risk of catastrophic wildfires like last fall's deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/camp-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> that destroyed most of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we head into summer, with smoke already drifting into the Northwest from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/04/world/alberta-wildfires-evacuations/index.html\">wildfires in Alberta\u003c/a>, Canada, Vicki Christiansen said wildfires are now a year-round phenomenon. She pointed to the hazardous conditions in forests that result from a history of suppression of wildfires, rampant home development in high-risk places and the changing climate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you look nationwide there's not any place that we're really at a fire \u003cem>season.\u003c/em> Fire season is not an appropriate term anymore,\" Christiansen said in an interview with NPR at the agency's headquarters in Washington. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11752448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki Christiansen, the chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, sits in her office in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Shuran Huang/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christiansen heads the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The agency is the nation's lead firefighting apparatus. It's trying to prioritize treatments such as thinning, brush clearing and prescribed burning on 80 million acres of its own land, mostly in the West. (Her billion acre estimate includes land across multiple federal, state and local jurisdictions as well as private land.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our national priority is to improve the condition of our nation's forests and grasslands,\" Christiansen said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1941685,science_1941376,science_1942384,science_1942299\" label=\"Fighting Fire\"]In line with a controversial Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/eo-promoting-active-management-americas-forests-rangelands-federal-lands-improve-conditions-reduce-wildfire-risk/\">executive order\u003c/a> pushing for \"active forest management,\" the agency was directed to treat 3.5 million acres this year alone, though it's behind target because of weather and administrative holdups. Part of the administration policy has also included an attempt to ramp up commercial logging on federal lands, an objective that conservation groups say will not reduce fire risk, unlike clearing of the smaller diameter wood that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/29/642955787/will-more-logging-save-western-forests-from-wildfires\">timber industry has so far found little market for\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christiansen defends what she calls an all-of-the-above approach. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are certainly focused on the timber outputs, but that is only one of the critical measures,\" she says. \"We are tracking with laser focus our hazardous fuels reduction and our watershed health and restoration as well.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christiansen's comments follow one of the worst wildfire seasons in U.S. history last year. Wildfires in Northern California destroyed parts of whole cities and killed nearly 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the push for more mitigation under Christiansen, the Forest Service is predicting it could spend upward of $2.5 billion just fighting fires this year alone. The agency was budgeted $1.7 billion and will likely again have to transfer money from existing forest management and fire mitigation programs to cover the difference, a paradoxical problem that won't end until \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/03/23/secretary-perdue-applauds-fire-funding-fix-omnibus\">reforms kick in next year\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Chief Vicki Christiansen says the danger is now year-round, thanks to hazardous conditions in forests, rampant home development and the changing climate. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1559751301,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":488},"headData":{"title":"1 Billion Acres at Risk for Catastrophic Wildfires, U.S. Forest Service Warns | KQED","description":"Chief Vicki Christiansen says the danger is now year-round, thanks to hazardous conditions in forests, rampant home development and the changing climate. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"1 Billion Acres at Risk for Catastrophic Wildfires, U.S. Forest Service Warns","datePublished":"2019-06-05T16:13:09.000Z","dateModified":"2019-06-05T16:15:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11752447 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11752447","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/06/05/1-billion-acres-at-risk-for-catastrophic-wildfires-u-s-forest-service-warns/","disqusTitle":"1 Billion Acres at Risk for Catastrophic Wildfires, U.S. Forest Service Warns","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/729720938/1-billion-acres-at-risk-for-catastrophic-wildfires-u-s-forest-service-warns","nprImageCredit":"Shuran Huang","nprByline":"Kirk Siegler\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/729720938/1-billion-acres-at-risk-for-catastrophic-wildfires-u-s-forest-service-warns\">NPR\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"729720938","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=729720938&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/729720938/1-billion-acres-at-risk-for-catastrophic-wildfires-u-s-forest-service-warns?ft=nprml&f=729720938","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:09:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 05 Jun 2019 08:28:27 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:09:52 -0400","path":"/news/11752447/1-billion-acres-at-risk-for-catastrophic-wildfires-u-s-forest-service-warns","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The chief of the U.S. Forest Service is warning that a billion acres of land across America are at risk of catastrophic wildfires like last fall's deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/camp-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> that destroyed most of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we head into summer, with smoke already drifting into the Northwest from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/04/world/alberta-wildfires-evacuations/index.html\">wildfires in Alberta\u003c/a>, Canada, Vicki Christiansen said wildfires are now a year-round phenomenon. She pointed to the hazardous conditions in forests that result from a history of suppression of wildfires, rampant home development in high-risk places and the changing climate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you look nationwide there's not any place that we're really at a fire \u003cem>season.\u003c/em> Fire season is not an appropriate term anymore,\" Christiansen said in an interview with NPR at the agency's headquarters in Washington. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11752448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-06-03-forestservice-shuang-2_custom-b9452579d5ded818c200f5ca7bc880106ea56a2b-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicki Christiansen, the chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, sits in her office in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Shuran Huang/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christiansen heads the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The agency is the nation's lead firefighting apparatus. It's trying to prioritize treatments such as thinning, brush clearing and prescribed burning on 80 million acres of its own land, mostly in the West. (Her billion acre estimate includes land across multiple federal, state and local jurisdictions as well as private land.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our national priority is to improve the condition of our nation's forests and grasslands,\" Christiansen said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1941685,science_1941376,science_1942384,science_1942299","label":"Fighting Fire "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In line with a controversial Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/eo-promoting-active-management-americas-forests-rangelands-federal-lands-improve-conditions-reduce-wildfire-risk/\">executive order\u003c/a> pushing for \"active forest management,\" the agency was directed to treat 3.5 million acres this year alone, though it's behind target because of weather and administrative holdups. Part of the administration policy has also included an attempt to ramp up commercial logging on federal lands, an objective that conservation groups say will not reduce fire risk, unlike clearing of the smaller diameter wood that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/29/642955787/will-more-logging-save-western-forests-from-wildfires\">timber industry has so far found little market for\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christiansen defends what she calls an all-of-the-above approach. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are certainly focused on the timber outputs, but that is only one of the critical measures,\" she says. \"We are tracking with laser focus our hazardous fuels reduction and our watershed health and restoration as well.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christiansen's comments follow one of the worst wildfire seasons in U.S. history last year. Wildfires in Northern California destroyed parts of whole cities and killed nearly 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the push for more mitigation under Christiansen, the Forest Service is predicting it could spend upward of $2.5 billion just fighting fires this year alone. The agency was budgeted $1.7 billion and will likely again have to transfer money from existing forest management and fire mitigation programs to cover the difference, a paradoxical problem that won't end until \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/03/23/secretary-perdue-applauds-fire-funding-fix-omnibus\">reforms kick in next year\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11752447/1-billion-acres-at-risk-for-catastrophic-wildfires-u-s-forest-service-warns","authors":["byline_news_11752447"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_20792","news_25282","news_4463"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11752449","label":"source_news_11752447"},"news_11712938":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11712938","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11712938","score":null,"sort":[1544997976000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"report-calls-forest-service-response-to-2016-big-sur-fire-a-firefighting-boondoggle","title":"Report Calls Forest Service Response to 2016 Big Sur Fire a 'Firefighting Boondoggle'","publishDate":1544997976,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A new report slams the U.S. Forest Service response to a massive 2016 wildfire near Big Sur as \"inappropriate, excessive and ineffective\" and calls it emblematic of the agency's overall spending tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fusee.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Soberanes-Fire-Final-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a>, assembled by the advocacy group Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology, closely examined how the agency fought the 2016 Soberanes Fire near Big Sur. It was the most expensive wildfire in U.S. history, costing $262 million to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11405049/widow-of-bulldozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-struggles-to-get-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Widow Of Bulldozer Operator Killed In Soberanes Fire Struggles To Get By\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11405049/widow-of-bulldozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-struggles-to-get-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SoberanesNight-800x468.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The blaze was started by an illegal campfire in Garrapata State Park outside Carmel on July 22, 2016, and quickly spread, destroying 57 homes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11453905/employer-of-contractor-killed-in-soberanes-fire-pleads-not-guilty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing a dozer operator\u003c/a> in the first week. It then continued to burn for months in Los Padres National Forest and the Ventana Wilderness, away from any homes or residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report argues the aggressive firefighting tactics used in the remote, uninhabited areas were not only unnecessary, but they were also executed poorly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was conventional firefighting actions but conducted in or adjacent to ... very rugged remote uninhabited wildland,\" lead author Timothy Ingalsbee said. \"The agency should shift its priorities from these backcountry firefighting boondoggles into really concentrating suppression resources on protecting homes and communities that cannot burn. Many of these backcountry wildlands must burn.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire is part of the natural ecology of wildlands. It is necessary for the life cycle of certain trees, allows growth on the forest floor, reduces fuel for future fires and increases water supply, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/live_w_fire.pdf\">Cal Fire.\u003c/a> And because of that, Ingalsbee says, it's excessive to spend so much money fighting fires that don't threaten buildings or human life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FUSEE report also argues that the unnecessarily aggressive tactics used to fight the Soberanes Fire were ineffective. According to the report, firefighters dropped retardant away from flames and fire lines and built dozer lines outside areas where the fire had stopped spreading on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These techniques failed to stop the spread of fire, cost taxpayers millions of dollars and left long-lasting scars on the land,\" Ingalsbee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire retardant cannot stop fire spread on its own without the support of ground crews clearing vegetation on containment lines. During the Soberanes Fire, 110 miles of continuous lines of retardant were dropped in \"looping patterns\" in remote areas, some of which no firefighters were sent to due to safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retardant was sometimes dropped several miles from active flames in places the wildfire never reached, or it was dropped outside of containment lines where firefighters could reasonably expect the fire would not spread to.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-help-solve-californias-fire-problem-so-why-arent-there-more-of-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why California's Best Strategy Against Wildfire Is Hardly Ever Used\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-help-solve-californias-fire-problem-so-why-arent-there-more-of-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/IMG_0118.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The report also took issue with the 60 miles of dozer lines firefighters cut into the wilderness during the Soberanes firefight. According to the report, the dozer lines did help stop the fire spread in some instances but was ineffective in others. Some dozer lines were cut miles away from the fire's edge and existing fire lines dug by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The dozer lines left lasting scenic impacts on the land, not only from denuding vegetation and damaging soils, but also introducing potential for the spread of invasive weeds and illegal use by off-road vehicles,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service spent roughly $1 million per day for weeks after the fire was contained to repair hiking trails and other areas damaged by dozer lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingalsbee also says limited congressional oversight of the Forest Service's budget allowed the agency to use expensive tactics, like air tankers and dozers, even when they were ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is kind of a blank check program,\" Ingalsbee said. \"It's all framed under this state of emergency and put all fires out at all times, all places, at all costs. And that's simply not sustainable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An internal Forest Service review of its response to the fire obtained by the Associated Press raised \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/f92cc1767c33459c9312d6fa408cdd50?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APWestRegion&utm_campaign=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar concerns\u003c/a>, finding a firefighting culture overly concerned with aggressive suppression that leads to waste:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For example, the department's review found that from Aug. 9 to Sept. 29, 2016, the number of threatened structures remained at 400 even as the fire grew by more than 90 square miles, which indicated the risk to property had abated as the flames burned into the wilderness. During that period, firefighting costs grew by $140 million.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service did not respond to a KQED request for comment, but said in a statement to the Associated Press, \"Protection of people first and then resources are our primary considerations. Every fire is evaluated to determine the appropriate strategy. We continually look for opportunities to improve outcomes and accountability and to find more cost-efficient and effective methods of managing wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The report argues the U.S. Forest Service needs to shift from excessive spending on fires in unpopulated areas and dedicate resources to fires that threaten property and lives.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1545076277,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":797},"headData":{"title":"Report Calls Forest Service Response to 2016 Big Sur Fire a 'Firefighting Boondoggle' | KQED","description":"The report argues the U.S. Forest Service needs to shift from excessive spending on fires in unpopulated areas and dedicate resources to fires that threaten property and lives.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Report Calls Forest Service Response to 2016 Big Sur Fire a 'Firefighting Boondoggle'","datePublished":"2018-12-16T22:06:16.000Z","dateModified":"2018-12-17T19:51:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11712938 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11712938","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/16/report-calls-forest-service-response-to-2016-big-sur-fire-a-firefighting-boondoggle/","disqusTitle":"Report Calls Forest Service Response to 2016 Big Sur Fire a 'Firefighting Boondoggle'","path":"/news/11712938/report-calls-forest-service-response-to-2016-big-sur-fire-a-firefighting-boondoggle","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new report slams the U.S. Forest Service response to a massive 2016 wildfire near Big Sur as \"inappropriate, excessive and ineffective\" and calls it emblematic of the agency's overall spending tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fusee.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Soberanes-Fire-Final-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a>, assembled by the advocacy group Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology, closely examined how the agency fought the 2016 Soberanes Fire near Big Sur. It was the most expensive wildfire in U.S. history, costing $262 million to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11405049/widow-of-bulldozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-struggles-to-get-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Widow Of Bulldozer Operator Killed In Soberanes Fire Struggles To Get By\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11405049/widow-of-bulldozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-struggles-to-get-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SoberanesNight-800x468.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The blaze was started by an illegal campfire in Garrapata State Park outside Carmel on July 22, 2016, and quickly spread, destroying 57 homes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11453905/employer-of-contractor-killed-in-soberanes-fire-pleads-not-guilty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing a dozer operator\u003c/a> in the first week. It then continued to burn for months in Los Padres National Forest and the Ventana Wilderness, away from any homes or residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report argues the aggressive firefighting tactics used in the remote, uninhabited areas were not only unnecessary, but they were also executed poorly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was conventional firefighting actions but conducted in or adjacent to ... very rugged remote uninhabited wildland,\" lead author Timothy Ingalsbee said. \"The agency should shift its priorities from these backcountry firefighting boondoggles into really concentrating suppression resources on protecting homes and communities that cannot burn. Many of these backcountry wildlands must burn.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire is part of the natural ecology of wildlands. It is necessary for the life cycle of certain trees, allows growth on the forest floor, reduces fuel for future fires and increases water supply, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/live_w_fire.pdf\">Cal Fire.\u003c/a> And because of that, Ingalsbee says, it's excessive to spend so much money fighting fires that don't threaten buildings or human life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FUSEE report also argues that the unnecessarily aggressive tactics used to fight the Soberanes Fire were ineffective. According to the report, firefighters dropped retardant away from flames and fire lines and built dozer lines outside areas where the fire had stopped spreading on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These techniques failed to stop the spread of fire, cost taxpayers millions of dollars and left long-lasting scars on the land,\" Ingalsbee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire retardant cannot stop fire spread on its own without the support of ground crews clearing vegetation on containment lines. During the Soberanes Fire, 110 miles of continuous lines of retardant were dropped in \"looping patterns\" in remote areas, some of which no firefighters were sent to due to safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retardant was sometimes dropped several miles from active flames in places the wildfire never reached, or it was dropped outside of containment lines where firefighters could reasonably expect the fire would not spread to.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-help-solve-californias-fire-problem-so-why-arent-there-more-of-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why California's Best Strategy Against Wildfire Is Hardly Ever Used\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-help-solve-californias-fire-problem-so-why-arent-there-more-of-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/IMG_0118.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The report also took issue with the 60 miles of dozer lines firefighters cut into the wilderness during the Soberanes firefight. According to the report, the dozer lines did help stop the fire spread in some instances but was ineffective in others. Some dozer lines were cut miles away from the fire's edge and existing fire lines dug by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The dozer lines left lasting scenic impacts on the land, not only from denuding vegetation and damaging soils, but also introducing potential for the spread of invasive weeds and illegal use by off-road vehicles,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service spent roughly $1 million per day for weeks after the fire was contained to repair hiking trails and other areas damaged by dozer lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingalsbee also says limited congressional oversight of the Forest Service's budget allowed the agency to use expensive tactics, like air tankers and dozers, even when they were ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is kind of a blank check program,\" Ingalsbee said. \"It's all framed under this state of emergency and put all fires out at all times, all places, at all costs. 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