Mendocino, Shasta-Trinity and Six Rivers National Forests Launch August Complex Post-Fire Rapid Assessment Team
This is a press release from the U.S. Forest Service:
The Mendocino, Shasta-Trinity and Six Rivers National Forests have been working closely together throughout all phases of the August Complex fires for three months. The three Forests have coordinated suppression actions, suppression repair activities, burned area emergency response assessments and implementation. The fires within the August Complex ignited on August 16 and 17, 2020 and burned, 1,032,648 acres before being contained on November 11, 2020. With the recent full containment of the August Complex, the Forests have brought together a multidisciplinary post-fire rapid assessment team (Team) to identify the longer-term restoration and rehabilitation needs across the burned area.
This Team is working across boundaries to maximize efficiency and consists of specialists from heritage, fuels, geology, wildlife, timber, public affairs, planning and other resources. Team members have been tasked with identifying potential hazards to public safety and infrastructure as well as identifying areas that need other restoration, rehabilitation or long-term maintenance treatments. As part of this effort the team will be reaching out to partners and communities to get their thoughts on post-fire recovery.
This rapid assessment is a first step in identifying the hazard reduction and restoration activities the Forests will pursue within the August Complex. Any projects that are selected to move forward will go through additional field assessment and the necessary environmental compliance prior to implementation. The team has already started its work on the rapid assessment.
The Mendocino, Shasta-Trinity and Six Rivers National Forests have been working closely together throughout all phases of the August Complex fires for three months. The three Forests have coordinated suppression actions, suppression repair activities, burned area emergency response assessments and implementation. The fires within the August Complex ignited on August 16 and 17, 2020 and burned, 1,032,648 acres before being contained on November 11, 2020. With the recent full containment of the August Complex, the Forests have brought together a multidisciplinary post-fire rapid assessment team (Team) to identify the longer-term restoration and rehabilitation needs across the burned area.
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It would make a lot of sense to quit pretending that these forests are “wilderness areas” and manage the forests for fire hazard reduction. The fires should be stopped at all costs before they become uncontrollable mass conflagrations. Too many lives have been damaged or ruined because of these “Wilderness Fires”.
The world has become entirely too populated. Plus, most of the wilderness areas have too many invasive species to be called wilderness.
It sound to me like this group of people are trying to build themselves another expensive and ineffective empire.
The consequences of this fire will be the legacy of their mismanagement.
A look at the BAER map
will show that most of the Yolla Bolly Wilderness burned at moderate, low, and very low severity.
Same with the North Fork Wilderness, looks like a pretty healthy burn. But right nearby is that area of high severity south of Hoaglin Valley, which looked like a disaster waiting to happen when I saw it 20 years ago, trashy logging at a clearly fire-prone site. The places that blew up were outside wilderness boundaries. Best and biggest example is that red spot of high severity in the headwaters of the Mad, above Three Forks; it was thoroughly roaded and had been logged after the last big fire, lots of dense young trees. Plenty more examples. The places that burned hard had good road access and had been “managed.”
Thanks for bringing attention to this .
Interesting
I already flagged a “mitigated” dozer line that needs to be redone to keep it from dumping into a major water source, don’t expect that just because crews came through they are ready for heavy rain. That is no slight against the crews, the last crew that was out here was just plain out of gas, asked to do what needed 4 times the resources and borderline PTSD from this summer of covid/fire hell. Given the scope of what needs to be done I don’t think it is out of range to have citizen volunteers help where it is safe.
Sounds like a wast of time the rain has stopped and not going to rain much more due to the climate change dam place by is slowly turning to dessert way to many trees taken out the last 170 years sorry to say but I lived here for over 50 years and every year it getting worse when I was younger I planted trees for Simpson LP all the big companies planting in areas that the trees were so big they look like a helicopter could land on them my opinion is they cut too much of the big old stuff and it has messed up the eco system for good I don’t think things are going to go in reverse any time soon maybe in about another 5000 years or so that’s if it’s left alone to grow back natural
I don’t know much, one of the few things I do know is that we need more trees.