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Alongside tightening environmental protections on national forests, a hands-off practice of forest management practice emerges. Did this create more harm than good?
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"
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Alongside tightening environmental protections on national forests, a hands-off practice of forest management practice emerges. Did this create more harm than good?
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"
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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.
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00:00Starting with the onslaught of environmental legislation and protective policies,
00:08we now have millions of acres of wilderness areas, so nobody can go in there.
00:13That puts 70,000 forest products industry companies out of business.
00:18With fewer loggers in the woods, even less land area is actively managed each year.
00:24Once the loggers were gone, the fuel loads grew dramatically,
00:27and without fire to regularly clear them, the forests were reaching a breaking point.
00:33In 1987, we had 2,300 lightning strikes strike the west coast,
00:41and they started thousands of acres of fires.
00:46But in those days, there were loggers in the woods logging,
00:49and we probably put out three quarters of the fire.
00:53Then by 1990, they were saying, listen, we don't want to do any management.
00:59We started losing a lot of those natural fire cycles that cleared out,
01:04you know, a lot of the underbrush and those kinds of things.
01:07There's data that estimate that even back in the early part of the 1900s,
01:12somewhere between 30 and 50 million acres of land would burn every year.
01:17And then as we move into World War II and certainly past World War II,
01:23that number really falls off.
01:26Let me put this in perspective.
01:28You have the National Park Service.
01:30You have the National Wildlife Refuge Service.
01:32Forest Service is bigger than both the park system and the refuge system combined,
01:37like 193 million acres.
01:40It was set up to have forests managed.
01:44Tree cutting, businesses, et cetera, were foundational elements of the management.
01:50And that's changed over time as more and more preservation, hands-off philosophy.
01:59So ranging from smoking the bear, I mean, you got to put out every fire,
02:03to you can't cut a tree.