WILDFIRE PANDEMIC

The second half

We bring you this letter by rancher Dave Daley that tells of his harrowing experience last summer when the Bear Fire struck his property and destroyed his land and cattle. We ask you read this and remember just what is at stake each day our forests go unmanaged. This letter has been split into two parts

A new way to visualize the alarming increase in atmospheric CO2 emissions.

We believe all federal forest and rangelands should be consolidated within a single cabinet-level Department of Natural Resources.

I have been writing about the wildfire crisis in our national forests for 30-plus years – long enough to have developed a solid understanding of it underlying causes.