Forest fires on the decline: Believe it

The media and alarmist groups tell one story while the data tell quite another. Rather than an increase in the frequency and intensity of forest fires, thanks to more carbon dioxide in the air, there has been as decrease.

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|2020-03-20T00:12:40-04:00March 20th, 2020|Comments Off on Forest fires on the decline: Believe it

Finally, some common-sense Western fire policies

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen reports on positive changes in forest management at two federal agencies -- Interior under Ron Zinke and Agriculture under Sonny Perdue. New policies will go a long way at reducing deaths of humans, animals, and plants from forest fires, and dramatically lower the costs of forest management while increasing the amount of forest land available for recreation and harvesting. As Driessen says, cleaning out dead, diseased, burned, overgrown trees would bring countless benefits -- and make our forests healthy again.

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|2017-09-18T08:31:45-04:00September 17th, 2017|3 Comments

Ecological double standards

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen, noting that both major party candidates for President support local control over fracking, suggests that local control should also extend to wind farms, solar arrays, forest management, and other issues that today are rigged in favor of those who shut down or redirect development by fiat.

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|2016-08-06T09:24:14-04:00August 6th, 2016|1 Comment

Destructive forest fires are due to – WHAT?

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen show how bureaucratic forest mismanagement, not climate change, is the major culprit in the spread of forest fires.

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|2016-08-01T11:05:22-04:00July 31st, 2016|85 Comments

Catastrophic wildfires in the West

Bureaucrats placed in charge of "public" lands -- largely in the Western U.S. -- are rewarded for poor management and punished for good management that might lower the cost to the public. They get further incentives toward mismanagement as a result of federal laws and regulations and the

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|2015-08-25T11:28:51-04:00August 24th, 2015|20 Comments
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