[MCN] 68 million acres of fuel reduction and landscape restoration accomplished since 2001

[Matthew Koehler]

There’s been a lot of talk (and press) lately about wildfires, public lands
logging and fuel reduction, especially related to many statements coming
out of the Trump administration, including Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
(who blamed the wildfires in California on “environmental terrorist groups”
and “environmental radicals”) and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who
is in charge of the U.S. Forest Service.

The basic narrative from the Trump administration, many GOP politicians,
some in the timber industry and even some DEM politicians is that the
federal government can’t do any logging or fuel reduction because of
environmentalists.

Turns out that, according to the federal government, between 2001 and 2017
the U.S. Forest Service and Department of interior accomplished
approximately 68 MILLION acres of hazardous fuels reduction and landscape
restoration.

See for yourself right here:
https://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/resources/reports/index.shtml

We seriously live in strange times when treating about 106,000 square miles
over a period of less than 20 years is basically characterized as doing
nothing and “hands-off management.”
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