As the U.S. wildfire season approaches, experts warn it could be one of the worst in recent memory. This will also be the first season managed by the Trump administration’s U.S. Wildland Fire Service, and the agency is pursuing a risky fire management strategy…
“We will enter this season with the presumption of a full suppression strategy applied to every wildfire under DOI management,” (Interior Secretary Doug) Burgum reportedly wrote in the April 8 memorandum, emphasizing a responsibility to protect communities, landscapes, habitat, and critical infrastructure…
The scientific consensus on full suppression fire management is that it is unsustainable and counterproductive in fire-adapted regions like the American West, the Great Plains, and the Southeast. Research has shown that immediately extinguishing smaller fires that don’t threaten life or property—rather than letting them burn under careful management—sets the stage for more severe, hazardous fires to ignite in that area. - Gizmodo
Monday, April 27, 2026
The Trump administration is set to royally mess up fighting wildfires
Ignoring science, again. That is, people with egos easily ten times the size of their intellects rejecting what they don’t understand and therefore fear.
The new five year farm bill HR7567 mandates a return to the ‘‘10
ReplyDeletea.m. policy,’’ blocking the use of beneficial fire to naturally remove
flammable debris in the forests. The Forest Service’s own website
calls the 10 a.m. policy ‘‘a strategy of the past that unfortunately
helped create the wildfire crisis of today.’’ This bill codifies it.