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In some areas local land managers are strapped for cash & looking to timber harvest to support direct fuel reduction service work. In other areas the cost of accounting ($ + delays to timelines) for a timber sale leaves the project losing money per tree harvested so it all goes into the grinder.

It would be delightful to find a way to fund more service work and cart fewer tons of biomass to the landfill. We ought to bring fuels reduction (good fire, mechanical reset, manual) to 100x more acres every year than we are today. The alternative is to let nature take its course.

Wildfire smoke this year woke up places unaccustomed to its effects. Now what?www.npr.org Wildfires worsened by climate change spewed smoke over much of North America this year. It's a new reality Americans haven't yet processed: how dangerous the smoke is for human health.