Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis

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Takeaway: Wildfires were two to three times as common from 1926–1950 and 1976–1982 as in 1983–2020, and acreage burned was two to five times as great in the 1920s through 1970s as in 1983–2020.

Sure, give or take a little. But no matter what you do, that picture doesn’t fit the narrative that global warming is causing more or bigger fires—not, certainly, on a scale sufficient to make up all that difference.

Nonetheless, there has been an increase in acres burned, despite a decrease in numbers of fires, since 2006. Why?

Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis will tell you why. And after you’ve read it, you’ll be prepared to explain it to others. And if enough people learn it, and voice their understanding to their elected representatives, we just might see public policy changed from trying to protect our forests by curbing global warming to protecting them by proper management.

This is an important study at a time when the Biden Administration blames wildfires on climate change and makes that one of its excuses to waste hundreds of billions of dollars fighting global warming.