Connie Young - 8-26-2018 - Forest management, climate change

Forest management, climate change

At this month’s Valley Air District governing board meeting, there was considerable disagreement about the relative roles that forest management practices and rising temperatures have played in the wildfires whose smoke has been fouling our air.

I reminded the members that Cal Fire Deputy Chief McClean has said, “It is our changing climate that is leading to more severe and destructive fires.” Supervisor Steve Worthley expressed his passion for improving the way we manage our forests. Dr. Alex Sherriffs said “the two gorillas in the room” are climate change and forest management problems, and we must acknowledge and work together to resolve both of them.

I hope the governing board will give both forest management and climate change the attention and resources they deserve.

Connie Young, Fresno
August 26, 2018

https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article217293935.html

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