<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="mailto:Missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org" class="">Missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Excerpt </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Later, Eaton asks about logging. Can logging fix the wildfire problem? Can the Forest Service prevent wildfires by logging larger acreages?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Says Higuera: ‘That is based on the assumption that fires are occurring because there is more fuel available to burn than in the past. That’s generally not what’s driving this. It’s the drought.’”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The only way to eliminate fire would be to pave the forests, he says. Only then would there be no fire.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://treesource.org/news/climate/wildfires-climate-drought/" class="">https://treesource.org/news/climate/wildfires-climate-drought/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">**********************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Even if the Forest Service removes every tree, homes will still go down in flames, up in smoke.</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); min-height: 17px;" class=""><a href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2006/01/03/fires-race-over-grasslands-homes/28454369007/" class=""></a><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171);" class=""><a href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2006/01/03/fires-race-over-grasslands-homes/28454369007/" class="">Fires race over grasslands, homes</a></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><a href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2006/01/03/fires-race-over-grasslands-homes/28454369007/" class="">https://www.heraldtribune.com<span style="color: #5f6368" class=""> › story › news › 2006/01/03</span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="color: #70757a" class="">Jan 3, 2006 — </span>… destroyed by a grass <span style="color: #5f6368" class=""><b class="">fire</b></span> that devastated most of this ranch-and-cattle <span style="color: #5f6368" class=""><b class="">town</b></span> near the Oklahoma border, burning about 50 ...</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171);" class=""><a href="https://www.5280.com/why-grassland-fires-still-surprise-us/" class=""><br class="">
</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 13, 171);" class=""><a href="https://www.5280.com/why-grassland-fires-still-surprise-us/" class="">Why Grassland Fires Still Surprise Us - 5280 Magazine</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""><span style="color: #202124" class=""><a href="https://www.5280.com/why-grassland-fires-still-surprise-us/" class="">https://www.5280.com<span style="color: #5f6368" class=""> › why-grassland-fires-still-surpri...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="color: #70757a" class="">Feb 7, 2022 — </span><span style="color: #5f6368" class=""><b class="">Grassland fires</b></span> occur more often than forest <span style="color: #5f6368" class=""><b class="">fires</b></span>. So why didn't we see something like the Marshall <span style="color: #5f6368" class=""><b class="">Fire</b></span> in Boulder County coming?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fbfbfb" class="">**********************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiQGh0dHBzOi8vbmV1cm9zY2llbmNlbmV3cy5jb20vbHltZS1kaXNlYXNlLXRyZWF0bWVudC1icmFpbi0yMTczMS_SAQA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Neuroimaging Study Reveals Functional and Structural Brain Abnormalities in People With Post-treatment Lyme Disease<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Neuroscience News</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-lyme-disease" class="">Climate Change Indicators: Lyme Disease | US EPA<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(19, 0, 155);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 80, 85);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; color: #18191b; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-lyme-disease" class="">https://www.epa.gov<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(77, 80, 85);" class=""> › climate-indicators › climate-chan…</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 80, 85);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 80, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5d6267; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Aug 2, 2022 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #3c4044; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Studies provide evidence that </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">climate change has contributed to the expanded range of ticks, increasing the potential risk of Lyme disease</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #3c4044; background-color: #ffffff" class="">, such ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5d6267" class=""><a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-lyme-disease#:~:text=Background,-Lyme%20disease%20is%20a%20bacterial" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(19, 0, 155);" class="">Background</span></a> · <a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-lyme-disease#:~:text=About%20the%20Data,-Indicator%20Notes" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(19, 0, 155);" class="">About The Data</span></a> · <a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-lyme-disease#:~:text=Technical%20Documentation,-Download%20related%20technical%20information%20PDF" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(19, 0, 155);" class="">Technical Documentation</span></a></span></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">**************************************************<br class=""><br class="">"The ultimate outcome of a policy is not what determines its qualification as folly. …. It qualifies as folly when it is a perverse persistence in a policy demonstrably unworkable or counter-productive. It is almost superfluous to say that the present study stems from the ubiquity of this problem in our time."<br class=""><br class="">Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984<br class=""><br class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">In his 1998 book,The Crisis of Global Capitalism, George Soros says, “Construction is notorious for its boom/bust character and after each bust bank managers become very cautious and resolve never to become so exposed again. But when they are <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">again awash in liquidity and desperate to put money to work, a new cycle begins.”<br class=""></span><br class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“Access to more capital makes bigger crises feasible:</span> every now and then, somewhere in the world, one is going to happen.<br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“Is this because the same mistakes are made again and again, or is each crisis unique? The answer is yes to both : each crisis is unique, and the same mistakes are made again and again.”<br class=""></span><br class="">“Banks have proved themselves to be the most hazardous economic institution known to man. Breakdowns in banking lie at the centre of most financial crises. And banks are unusually effective at spreading financial distress, once it starts, from one place to another. It is tempting to conclude that banks should simply be abolished. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to be possible. Banks seem to be necessary.”</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">The Economist, “A cruel sea of capital : A survey of global finance,” May 3rd, 2003.</div>
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