USFS and US Parks Administrators Continue To Pollute The Sierra Range

No Dorothy, keeping all forest fires small has not been the emphasis of USFS and US Park Administrators since 1978.

See Article Link below from Nevada News and Views.

Largely unknown to the public and the press, the federal practice of “managed” vs “direct full suppression” burns has been ongoing since 1978, when according to a US Forest Service historical document titled Fire-Management Policies and Programs, (Susan J. Husari), federal burn agency terminology and practice changed from fire control to “fire management”.

The document goes on to state “this fire-management policy directed fire managers to minimize fire-suppression costs” and damage consistent with land and resource objectives.  It defined “Appropriate Suppression Response” (ASR) as a range of suppression strategies. These strategies -called contain, confine, and control - were to be employed to accomplish a cost-effective response to fires that escaped initial attack. ASR implies that the most cost-effective response might deviate from a suppression philosophy that emphasized keeping all fires small.” Today’s fire policy terminology is referred to as “box and burn.”

There is nothing natural or wild about this subjective pollution generating process.

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