16 June 2022

Published by: https://mailchi.mp

USA

Blowtorch Forestry, Part II

“It’s time to drive a stake in the heart of the managed fire vampire.”
Frank Carroll, Managing Partner, PFMc Professional Forest Management
Pueblo, Colorado www.wildfirepros.com  
 
Editor’s note: When we interviewed Frank Carroll in April 2020, he coined the phrase “blowtorch forestry” to describe the Forest Service’s preference for what it euphemistically calls “managed fire.”

Managed fire – very large deliberately set burns – as opposed to thinning and prescribed fire, a one-two combination that has been safely and successfully used for decades by state and private landowners and Indian tribes across the nation.

We circled back to Frank last week to ask him if anything in the Forest Service world of blowtorch forestry has changed. “No, nothing,“ he replied. “Deferred fire suppression and the resulting huge managed wildfires have grown much worse.”

Continue to the interview on EvergreenMagazine.com