Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
“Hazardous Fuel Reduction” is a euphemism for logging. Instead of protecting communities from fire, as the forest service would have us believe, thinning, clear cutting, and snag (dead tree) removal in the deep forest are all practices that damage soils, and increase both the intensity and speed of #wildfires. Making money from such programs as Clear Cuts for Kilowatts, the #ForestService is neither protecting forests, nor the communities that fire endangers. "Non-commercial only". These simple words need to be added to the Build Back Better Bill so that the $14 billion allocated for forests will actually protect them.
As Chad Hanson explains in his book, #Smokescreen, logging by any name and putting out large fires in the wildlands are not effective in preventing such tragedies as the Camp fire. Instead, the focus should be on fireproofing houses and regularly pruning the area surrounding them.
The actual wildland-urban interface is 100 feet, not miles away.
Please write to your Senator and ask that the #BuildBackBetter Bill, HR5376, Section 10011, Points 1 and 2 be amended to contain the words “non-commercial only”, with no exceptions. Although the bill has already passed the House of Representatives, it can still be amended.
For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
“Hazardous Fuel Reduction” is a euphemism for logging. Instead of protecting communities from fire, as the forest service would have us believe, thinning, clear cutting, and snag (dead tree) removal in the deep forest are all practices that damage soils, and increase both the intensity and speed of #wildfires. Making money from such programs as Clear Cuts for Kilowatts, the #ForestService is neither protecting forests, nor the communities that fire endangers. "Non-commercial only". These simple words need to be added to the Build Back Better Bill so that the $14 billion allocated for forests will actually protect them.
As Chad Hanson explains in his book, #Smokescreen, logging by any name and putting out large fires in the wildlands are not effective in preventing such tragedies as the Camp fire. Instead, the focus should be on fireproofing houses and regularly pruning the area surrounding them.
The actual wildland-urban interface is 100 feet, not miles away.
Please write to your Senator and ask that the #BuildBackBetter Bill, HR5376, Section 10011, Points 1 and 2 be amended to contain the words “non-commercial only”, with no exceptions. Although the bill has already passed the House of Representatives, it can still be amended.
For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
