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Posted by: thepinetree on 12/18/2022 12:12 AM
Updated by: thepinetree on 12/18/2022 12:12 AM
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Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition Gains Momentum in Fight to Protect Giant Sequoias Threatened by Unprecedented Wildfire Risk
Arnold, CA...Officials from the State of California, USDA Forest Service (Forest Service), National Parks Service (NPS), Tule River Indian Tribe of California and Save the Redwoods League - all members of the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition - announced today that they have made significant progress to restore the giant sequoia range and help protect it from severe wildfires.
A prescribed burn clears dense understory fuels at Calaveras Big Trees State Park in May 2022. Photo courtesy of Save the Redwoods League.
In its first year of large-scale collaboration, the Coalition far exceeded its goals, treating 4,257 acres - more than double the acres originally targeted for restoration in 2022 - in 36 of approximately 80 groves. Members also planted more than 248,000 native conifer seedlings, including giant sequoias, in groves that had burned in recent years.
The Coalition gathered at Calaveras Big Trees State Park today to issue a progress report on the work conducted throughout 2022 by the public and non-governmental organizations.
Giant sequoias are the largest trees in the world and severe wildfires have killed approximately 20% of the mature trees since 2015.
The two federal agencies that own and manage the majority of giant sequoia lands - USDA Forest Service and National Park Service - implemented emergency actions this summer to accelerate the pace and scale of work.
“An unprecedented crisis demands an unprecedented response,” said Jessica Morse, deputy secretary for forest and wildland resilience, California Natural Resources Agency, which houses the California State Parks system. “Federal, state, nonprofit and tribal partners have teamed up to protect critical old-growth giant sequoia groves. Unprecedented funding and a shift in government business practices – like deploying emergency authorities for the National Environmental Policy Act – have enabled us to scale and speed up crucial resilience projects. The loss of more than 10,000 giant sequoias is a somber testimony to the severity of the crisis. These resilience projects will make the difference between these monarch trees surviving or succumbing to the extreme climate pressures they face."
Additional highlights from the 2022 progress report include:
- Collaboration to successfully protect Placer County Big Trees Grove in Tahoe National Forest from the Mosquito wildfire and Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias in Yosemite National Park from the Washburn wildfire;
- Research lead by Coalition partners and their academic and nonprofit affiliates continued to investigate sequoia health and changing ecology, documenting new phenomena driving fire behavior and tree mortality and completing post-fire assessments
- Public outreach and education included electronic and print publications, community meetings, webinars, field trips, media events and news releases that resulted in more than 10,000 stories.
- The Coalition’s work in 2022 was conducted by 824 people at a cost of $10.5 million.
The complete progress report is available here.
“How the giant sequoia species emerges from this existential threat will be determined by the choices that we make now. We, collectively, must take responsibility for what happens next,” said Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League. “We, again, urge decision makers to take further action to provide funding and personnel, enact policy changes and help us reduce fuels now so we can address the problem at scale.”
The members of the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition are:
- National Park Service, represented by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks?and Yosemite National Park
- USDA Forest Service, represented by the Sequoia National Forest,?Giant Sequoia National Monument, Sierra National Forest, and Tahoe National Forest
- Bureau of Land Management, stewards of the Case Mountain Extensive Recreation Management Area
- Tule River Indian Tribe of California, stewards of all or parts of five sequoia groves
- California State Parks, stewards of Calaveras Big Trees State Park
- California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), stewards of Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest
- University of California, Berkeley, stewards of Whitaker’s Forest
- Tulare County, stewards of Balch Park
- Save the Redwoods League, stewards of parts of two sequoia groves (special coalition affiliate member)
Note to media: Images of GSLC projects and places are available for download here.
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About Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition
The Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition (GSLC) is a collaboration of public and non-governmental organizations with a shared commitment aimed at the conservation of giant sequoia grove ecosystems. The Coalition is comprised of all federal, tribal, state, local agencies and groups that manage giant sequoia groves in public, tribal or private non-profit ownership. Affiliate partners include select federal and state conservation agencies, non-governmental organization conservation groups and academic research partners with a shared commitment to protect giant sequoias and their ecosystems from emerging threats associated with climate change and the extended absence of natural, low-severity wildfire. More information at giantsequoias.org.
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Wildfire protection
Posted on: 2022-12-18 08:14:22
By: Anonymous
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Pretty simple.
Eliminate the fuel surrounding the trees first.
Then Eliminate the fuel surrounding the park.
If CA wants to spend money on solutions, this is where you start.
You have all these Calfire employees that are unemployed for 4 months every year. Why not pay these employees to burn the fuel that are next year's wildfire fuel?
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Re: Wildfire protection...all caps guy and mr Bold Print
Posted on: 2022-12-18 13:29:52
By: Anonymous
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Take your meds and go outside to enjoy this beautiful day.
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No Subject
Posted on: 2022-12-18 08:14:34
By: Anonymous
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Think about this and think WHO GIVES A S__T!!!
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Re: who gives a sh!t
Posted on: 2022-12-18 10:41:37
By: Anonymous
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I do.
I live in the forest surrounded by trees.
Trees burn.
Will be a day when I can't get fire insurance.
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Re: who gives a sh!t
Posted on: 2022-12-19 13:21:52
By: Anonymous
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Quite a few people were dropped from their insurance coverage several years ago - notably after the Paradise Fire. Now their only options are the California FAIR Plan or Lloyd's of London - the insurer of last resort...if you can afford it.
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Speaking of our Worst President In US History
Posted on: 2022-12-18 11:16:50
By: Anonymous
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"President Biden claimed Friday that his uncle Frank Biden won the Purple Heart for his actions during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II — but there’s no evidence of the award and key details of the story are chronologically impossible."
"My dad, when I got elected vice president [in 2008], he said, ‘Joey, Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge.’ He was not feeling very well now — not because of the Battle of the Bulge, but he said, ‘and he won the Purple Heart and he never received it. He never got it. Do you think you could help him get it? We will surprise him,'” the president recalled.
“So I got him the Purple Heart. He had won it in the Battle of the Bulge. And I remember he came over the house and I came out and [my father] said, ‘Present it to him, okay?’ We had the family there,” Biden went on."
"I said, ‘Uncle Frank, you’ve won this and I wanted to —’ and he said, ‘I don’t want the damn thing.’ No, I’m serious, he said, ‘I don’t want it.’ I said, ‘What’s the matter, Uncle Frank? You earned it.’ He said, ‘Yeah, but the others died. The others died. I lived. I don’t want it.'”
Biden told the story apparently to make a point about the humility of veterans, but the known facts indicate it’s not true.
Biden’s father, Joseph R. Biden Sr., died in September 2002 — more than six years before his son was elected vice president. Frank Biden, Joe Sr.’s brother, died in 1999."
BUT I BELIEVE THIS STORY, ONLY BECAUSE THIS SENILE OLD FOOL THAT MILLIONS OF US IMBECILES VOTED FOR, ACTUALL BELIEVES IT TOO.
COME JANUARY INVESTIGATIONS WILL START AND IT WILL SHOW HOW CORRUPT THE PRESIDENT IS, INCLUDING HIS ENTIRE FAMILY, THE DOJ, THE FBI, ALL BECAUSE THE BIGGEST IDIOT VOTERS IN OUR HISTORY WERE SO EASILY MANIPULATED BY THE LEFT WING MEDIA THAT COLLUDED WITH THE DEMOCRATS IN DC.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BEAUTIFUL, HAPPY, NEW YEAR TO ALL THE PEOPLE SEEKING JUSTICE AND BRINGING LAW AND ORDER BACK TO ALL.
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Re: Speaking of our Worst President In US History
Posted on: 2022-12-18 11:56:20
By: Anonymous
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Sleepy Joe's Dementia is very bad , How can he recount a story about something that never happened. And you city Libs really support this from a sitting President ? I don't bring up Orange man as a excuse.
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Re: Speaking of our Worst President In US History
Posted on: 2022-12-18 20:26:59
By: Anonymous
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Hell yeah we support it! And we'll support it/him again in 24' when he runs against the next great Republican candidate, Donald J. Trump.
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HAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Trump will get his clock cleaned, his ass kicked, and his sorry ass will be run through the wringer. Can't wait. Come on repubs, help him lock up the nomination. Really looking forward to it, and a Biden landslide. Total humiliation of Trump. Maybe he can sell an NFT him pictured with a 45 in his mouth blowing out his brains after his defeat in two years.
You Know what NFT stands for??
NeverFukingTrump!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Simple
Posted on: 2022-12-18 13:03:39
By: Anonymous
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Graze it, log it, or burn it.
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Re: Simple
Posted on: 2022-12-18 14:57:41
By: Anonymous
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Correct! The park was told in 1975 what and how to protect the park and associated forest by a SFRI from Arnold. They didn’t respond. It’s taken this long to figure it out?
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Re: Simple
Posted on: 2022-12-18 18:14:38
By: Anonymous
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^If you can't prove this then you are a damn liar!
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Re: Simple
Posted on: 2022-12-18 20:13:23
By: Anonymous
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Lol, I can.
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Re: Simple
Posted on: 2022-12-19 13:00:12
By: Anonymous
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All of those burned Giant Sequoias in Sequoia - Kings Canyon National Park finally spurred government to action to protect the Giant Sequoias that remain in the state.
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No Subject
Posted on: 2022-12-19 13:30:07
By: Anonymous
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Daniel Gold is ready to help! He can be found wandering in the vicinity of Indian Rock Road and Sierra Parkway with a supply of flares.
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