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We've Been Fighting Forest Fires Wrong For 100 Years
Business Insider Prescribed burning, intended to remove dead wood and fuel before fire season, does help control fires in Western conifer forests, like the tall giants of Sequoia National Park in Northern California. But chaparral isn't forest. It's a dense carpet of … |
Fighting Fires: You’re Doing It Wrong – Our Amazing Planet
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Fighting Fires: You're Doing It Wrong
Our Amazing Planet "I work in Sequoia National Park, and we've had a prescription burning program for the last 40 years, and it's extremely necessary," Keeley told OurAmazingPlanet. "In most of Southern California, it is completely irrelevant. There is overwhelming … |
Closing road to Mineral King wrong – Visalia Times-Delta
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Closing road to Mineral King wrong
Visalia Times-Delta I am writing this in hopes of gaining support in asking Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park to restore seasonally appropriate, public access to Mineral King Valley. Mineral King Valley, if you are unaware, is a pocket glacial valley east of Visalia. |