Wildfire

Opportunities to Make a Difference

Ask your House Representative for Additional Fire Risk Reduction Funding

Take a moment to call or send a message to your U.S. representative thanking them for passing the infrastructure bill and request they pass additional funding to ensure we can treat all high risk areas identified by the Forest Service.

If you don't sound eloquent, that's OK! Aide's just tally up the number of messages they receive on a given topic.

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Potential Talking Points

Thank you Representative THEIR NAME for passing wildfire risk reduction funding as part of the infrastructure bill.
Please continue working to secure the longer term money needed to treat all high risk areas identified by the Forest Service.
An analysis by the Nature Conservancy indicates $5-$6 billion will be needed annually over the next 10 years.
Its a small investment when you consider wildfires cost the Western U.S. hundreds of billions each year.

Show Notes

This Week’s Reason for Hope

Group of countries and manufacturers have agreed to phase out fossil fuel vehicles by 2040

Part of U.N. climate summit in Glasgow

Car makers include – Ford, GM, Volvo, Daimler Benz

Countries include – Sweden, India, Poland

Notably missing

China, U.S., and Germany
VW and Toyota

Sources

Countries, cities, carmakers commit to end fossil-fuel vehicles by 2040 | Reuters

Boris Johnson takes private jet from conference Glasgow to London to attend private event

Boris Johnson rides the train back to COP26 in Glasgow — and away from a mess at Westminster - The Washington Post

Costs – Impacts and Solutions

Some progress w/ infrastructure bill

Wildfire Risk Reduction – $3.3 billion
Ecosystem Restoration – $2.1 billion

Nature Conservancy analysis

U.S. Forest Service has done advanced modeling
Significant reduction in fire exposure to high risk areas means treating 51M acres
Recommendation - $5 - $6B / year for 10 years
2018 fire season cost the State of CA ~ $150B

Wildfire and Logging

Study on Cooney Ridge fire in Montana

Private lands were recently harvested in large clear cuts
Public lands had received smaller cuts was being managed for other factors aside from timber production
Private lands fared much worse in fire

Sources

Infrastructure Bill: Billion$ for Wildfire, Forest Management | The Smokey Wire : National Forest News and Views (forestpolicypub.com)

Wildfire Resilience Funding (nature.org)

https://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr208en/psw_gtr208en_525-534_stone.pdf

Wildfire - A Bad Master, but a Good Servant

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Opportunities to Make a Difference

Ask your House Representative for Additional Fire Risk Reduction Funding

Show Notes

This Week’s Reason for Hope

Wildfire

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