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Morganton New-Herald PRESCRIBED REDUCE WILDFIRE THREAT There are those headlines again professing half truths. In visiting the areas burned at the Lake James State Park, a person has to wonder what was really accomplished. David Walker of the N.C. Forest Service is quoted as saying The point of this fire was to reduce the threat of wildfire. We’re burning it on our terms so a wildfire can’t burn on its terms,” Walker said Tuesday. “Our goal is to reduce small fuels by consuming them with fire. There will also be some benefits by reducing hardwood competition and making a more park-life appearance with general aesthetic quality.” In looking at the sites that were burned they were no where close to homes, were next to the roadway and/or the lake where fire control is effective or has natural firebreaks. The effects of the burn removed a top layer of leaf litter akin to a leaf raking , leaving almost all woody material on site in drier and somewhat charcoal state. As we all know if you want to BBQ you need to start with charcoal, not green wood. So you are left with a place that will have equal leaf litter plus some charcoal by fall? Reduction of fire risk? What are the chances of a wildfire existing at this very site return? How much forest do you have too burn to mitigate a possible wildfire? Chances are the next wildfire will be somewhere else. To accommodate the odds and to increase the possibility of prescribed burning being in a place that the next wildfire would occur will require burning vast swaths of forest, with frequency as the leaf litter and small diameter woody materials return quickly. Prescribed burning in the location viewed was a folly on tax payer dollars. Appearance wise the effects of the fire are dreadful and unattractive, sure it will grow back, however, it will take several years, and in best practice the burners must return and burn in 2 - 3 years and again after that and a third time as well...., in fact the leaves fall and small woody materials continue to grow. Never ending burning? morganton/news/article_43064cec-a3f9-11e3-a3bc-001a4bcf6878.html

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