4/4: #Bestof2021: Fires, droughts, flood and heat are climate change & What is to be done? : 4/4: Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell , Jonathan Wood
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🗓️ 2 January 2023
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4/4: #Bestof2021: Fires, droughts, flood and heat are climate change & What is to be done? : 4/4: Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell , Jonathan Wood
https://www.perc.org/2021/04/12/fix-americas-forests-reforms-to-restore-national-forests-and-tackle-the-wildfire-crisis/
In 2020, the largest wildfire in California history scorched six counties in the northern part of the state. The August Complex Fire burned more than one million acres across three national forests and destroyed hundreds of structures. But devastating fires are not limited to California. Across the West, more than 10 million acres burned in 2020—a record in modern history. These fires consumed more than 17,500 structures and more than $3.5 billion in firefighting costs.Tragically, dozens of lives were lost, and many more people were displaced by evacuation orders. Fires released smoke that degraded air quality nearby and hundreds of miles away. They also destroyed wildlife habitat, including for imperiled species, and the fires’ aftereffects will soon lead to erosion that harms water quality in local watersheds
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| 0:41.9 | It's great pleasure to speak to Holly Fretwell with her colleague Jonathan Wood, |
| 0:45.7 | publishing Fix America's Forest, reforms to restore national forests |
| 0:49.7 | and tackle the wildfire crisis. We've touched on these eight recommendations in part, |
| 0:55.1 | but I want to go through them for Holly to explain more completely. |
| 1:00.1 | Holly, we encourage collaboration. We've just talked about that. The Good Neighbor act |
| 1:04.9 | of voiding analysis paralysis. I like that. What does it mean Holly? |
| 1:10.4 | Well, analysis paralysis is one of those terms and like the Gordian knot that our former chief |
| 1:15.9 | of the forest service several of them have we have come up with in the sense of there are so many |
| 1:20.1 | layered regulations that overlap each other that make it really difficult to get anything done |
| 1:24.9 | on the ground. We have the NEPA, we have the Clean Air Act, we have the Endangered Species Act, |
| 1:28.0 | we have the National Forest Management Act, we have the Wilderness Act, all these different laws |
| 1:33.2 | have to be abided by by the agency and by the time you get done trying to work your way through that, |
| 1:38.0 | you're kind of tied in a knot and that's where the Gordian knot comes from. |
| 1:41.5 | But there are things that we can do to reduce that and I think if you take all of our recommendations |
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