Fire danger continues to plague chemical toilet

So, what’s not to like about six (seven? eight?) month winters, rampant racism, chilling effects on civil rights, an extremist legislature, a year round wildfire season, living in a chemical toilet, sacrifice zone, perpetual welfare state and permanent disaster area? 

See that yellow splotch over the Black Hills in the above graphic? That's where the 10 hour fuel moisture is creating high wildland fire potential.

See all those fires clustered over the Black Hills in the above graphic? Some are fuel treatments and pile burns but many are early season wildfires that have erupted over much of the region because of Republican timber industry lobbyists.

Slow-walking prescribed fires, the persistence of cheatgrass on the Black Hills National Forest and on other federal and state ground are just more examples of the intense lobbying efforts of Neiman Enterprises and from welfare ranchers addicted to cheap grazing fees. Instead of allowing native aspen to be restored, stands of doghair ponderosa pine (ladder fuels that feed wildfires) cover much of the BHNF. Spurred by the Neimans the Forest Service is still planting pine in the Jasper Fire area. 

Add the very high number of private inholdings within the Black Hills National Forest that make the wildland urban interface (WUI) very large to one of the highest road densities in the entire national forest system and Region 2 to lots of logging, hardrock mining and pesticides like Carbaryl then understand why over a hundred species in South Dakota alone and a million worldwide are at risk to Kristi Noem, Dusty Johnson, Jim Neiman and the former Republican Party now the American Nazi Party.

2/16/21 Black Hills National Forest Pile Burning Information: https://t.co/1Vmrl8OLWO pic.twitter.com/dzQ3aOjuVz

— Black Hills NF (@BlackHillsNF) February 16, 2021