2022 - 30 minute interview - Yellowstone National Park - 80% of their
fires are caused by lightning - naturally fire burns thru their
forests approx every 150 years - they are removing some vegetation
(via ?logging?) - they do very little prescribed fire - their fire
environment swings wildly from low to extreme ("its either on or off")
and that makes prescribed fire hard to achieve
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zerg90 comments
we are not really sure where they stand - they know they have some
very important structures to defend - they also know that allowing
some fires to burn is very beneficial - so they have to juggle those
2 concerns
would be interesting to see if they have any interface plan - like a
cwpp or a firewise plan - if they have a major wildfire year - and
again are facing huge fires blowing into inhabited areas - that wont
look very good for them
but if the structural FD is very strong and has a good water supply -
then maybe they think they can handle whatever mother nature throws at
them
there are very dependent on outside resources for wildfire control -
if worse came to worse - they could get FDNY and Wash DC FD to send in
a few dozen engines in under 72 hours - (2100 miles - 32 hours per
google - nyc to yellowstone via I90)
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