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Submitted by brymihay on September 24, 2007
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"Paper 2"
Quagmire
Sometime this summer or maybe late fall, news programs will be filled with images of catastrophic wildfires ravaging forests in the American West. If the trend continues from the last five fire seasons, homes will burn to the ground causing hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, millions of acres of public lands will be stripped of their value, and thousands of part-time fire fighters will unnecessarily risk their lives, all in the name of the protection of our environment. This next fire season will likely yield the same results, a tremendous loss of timber, ecological degradation, and an enormous expenditure of tax revenue, because the underlying issues are not going away. The United States' Public lands are in a state of emergency due to the current strategy of implementation of the National Fire Plan. The path to recovery is a long and expensive one. Supporters of the national suppression policy see the path to recovery as counter-productive, more will be lost in the time given to recover than will be lost with the use and expenditure of immediate resources. With out a drastic reform of the rules governing fire suppression, an exorbitant loss of tax revenue and the extinction of our forested lands are inevitable.
In the summer of 1910, 2.6 million acres of western Montana and Idaho burned, and a fledgling land management agency (Unites States Forest Service) was held accountable by the public. Rising from the ashes is the fundamental ideology of today's fire suppression policy, "Rangers knew in every fiber of their professional being that it was evil" (Pyne 3). The eradication of this "evil" meant one thing, total suppression of all fire on all public lands. The social perception of fire as an agent of destruction rather than a necessary ecosystem function has led to decades of successful suppression, which in turn has amounted to a significant accumulation of forest fuels. "This one change...
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