US Forest Service Managers Continue to Grow Fires, Smoke And Heat

US Forest Service Administrators continue to step up their purposeful fire, smoke and heat growth practices without any real oversight, carrying out their harmful policies with impunity.

These dangerous pollution practices are not based on true science and harm us all, including our children, the very young, the elderly, those who are pregnant, respiratory patients, ranch animals, pets, our cherished wildlife, local and regional recreation, visitors and commerce. They degrade the water quality and clarity of our streams, rivers and lakes.

Largely unknown to the public and press, the US Forest Service has been quietly "growing" fires, smoke and heat with tactics called "Box and Burn", "Minimal Impact Suppression Tactics", and since 1978, engaging in what is known as "Appropriate Suppression Response" (code for growing fires). (Please see our attached article).

Right now as we speak.....the USFS is currently purposely growing a lightning caused fire near the Sequoia National Forest even as fire weather is predicted to worsen. The pollution generated from past purposeful fire growth of this type travel up the Sierra Range chocking our mountain residents, our families, pets, visitors, wildlife and recreation as far north as Lake Tahoe....One of the justifications is that the smoke from this fire will help oak trees and acorns (really??).

Another current and purposely grown USFS fire in Arizona is just 15% contained and has grown to 44,451 acres. What about the thousands of wildlife who are unable to flee the toxic smoke and flame as they suffocate and suffer needlessly dying slowly or maimed at the hands of this USFS must burn, let burn, just let it burn dogma.

And yet, according to the USFS website, the Chief of the US Forest Service has vowed to continue to grow "unplanned" event fires in 2019.

"Unplanned event fires" use to only include naturally caused fires like lightning strikes (but now shockingly, "unplanned" fires are USFS Code for most any fire, natural or man-made and can even include arson fires).

The USFS have been masterful messengers as they conveniently and successfully hide behind, hijack and blame climate change as an excuse for their failed fire suppression and public safety protection and capability policies. This includes their lack of public safety leadership, causing skyrocketing insurance costs and the continual threatening of the public and politicians, that that unless the USFS burns more, more will continue to burn.

And, the USFS is actually changing the title of USFS "Firefighters" to Fire "Technicians". That's because fire growth devices like drip torches and sphere igniting devices dropped from helicopters are the preferred fire growth methods as opposed to using, lets say fire retardant aircraft which can easily and efficiently stop the forward movement of most wild land fires.

As we witnessed last summer, this purposeful US Forest Service assault on our clean air systematically clouded major US Western Cities with toxic smoke plumes reaching from the Western US, to as far east as New York. Now, they are doing it again.

Tell US Forest Service Administrators to STOP GENERATING TOXIC SMOKE....Stop  Growing Fires....PUT THE FIRES OUT!