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EarthX Website: https://earthxmedia.com/    Looks may be deceiving. What components actually make up a healthy forest?    About American Forest Fires:  Are government policies and bureaucracy the REAL fire starters in America? Are answers to a major crisis staring us in the face? Learn what brought us to this point, and the innovative solutions which could keep disaster from setting nature ablaze.    This clip comes from Season 1, Episode 1: "Burning Down the House"    EarthX  Love Our Planet.  The Official Network of Earth Day.    About Us:      At EarthX, we believe our planet is a pretty special place. The people, landscapes, and critters are likely unique to the entire universe, so we consider ourselves lucky to be here. We are committed to protecting the environment by inspiring conservation and sustainability, and our programming along with our range of expert hosts support this mission. We’re glad you’re with us.     EarthX is a media company dedicated to inspiring people to care about the planet. We take an omni channel approach to reach audiences of every age through its robust 24/7 linear channel distributed across cable and FAST outlets, along with dynamic, solution oriented short form content on social and digital platforms. EarthX is home to original series, documentaries and snackable content that offer sustainable solutions to environmental challenges. EarthX is the only network that delivers entertaining and inspiring topics that impact and inspire our lives on climate and sustainability.      EarthX Website: https://earthxmedia.com/    Follow Us:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earthxtv/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/earthxtv  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/earthxtv    How to watch:   United States:   - Spectrum  - AT&T U-verse (1267)  - DIRECTV (267)  - Philo  - FuboTV  - Plex  - Fire TV       #EarthDay #Environment #Sustainability #Eco-friendly #Conservation #EarthxTV #EarthX

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00:00For generations, in the public imagination, a healthy forest was thought to be one untouched

00:07by mankind.

00:09As we're beginning to learn, that was never the case.

00:13Something that's really interesting is many people look at our forest and they see these

00:17dense green forests and they think that's a really healthy forest.

00:21And then you see this more open forest with spaced out trees and you think that's the

00:26unhealthy forest.

00:27And that may or may not be the case.

00:30Sometimes the unhealthy forest is the really dense forest and it is a result of our past

00:35forest management.

00:38So now you have a state like California with 99 million dead trees.

00:47And you have these giant combustion fires that have never happened before.

00:52And again, when the Indians burned, they burned the brush and much of our forest, particularly

00:57in the West, the floor was grassland, not brush.

01:02If we don't have loggers removing some of this wood, our forests will burn down.

01:07Nobody tried harder to make people understand that if they removed all management from these

01:12forests that we were going to have a terrible crisis on our hands.

01:17And everything that I've said for the last 30 years has come true.

01:23Of course we want to preserve old growth, but is that exactly what we should be doing?

01:29Or should we be going in and thinning out some of the lower-lying vegetation to make

01:34sure that the old growth that we think we preserve doesn't just get burnt to a crisp

01:40in a high-intensity fire?

01:43I mean, we're still struggling with those questions now.

01:47There's no question.

01:48We need to treat, mechanically and through prescribed fires, many more acres than we

01:53are today.

01:55By the late 70s and early 80s, there was a lot of distrust around our logging programs.

02:01And unfortunately, I think people are associating that with what we're trying to do now.

02:08We can do a better job of rebuilding some of the trust that we've lost with some of

02:12the members in our different communities.

02:15And I think that's the edge that we want to try and reach now in bringing people together.

02:21The biggest impediment is literally you have four or five decades behind the curve.

02:27So you're looking at remedial solutions that are not only have to be gigantic in size and

02:35scale, but they're going to be really expensive.

02:40We now know at least part of the solution.

02:43A re-engagement with the forests, using strategic mechanical clearing and prescribed burning

02:48on a larger scale.

02:50But big expenses require big political will.

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