The grassland fire danger index will reach the extreme category
this afternoon. Extreme weather conditions and very low moisture
content of grasses, and other dry organic material on the ground,
indicate that critical burning conditions exist. All fires have
the potential to become large and spread quickly becoming erratic
with extreme behavioral characteristics. No outdoor burning
should take place.
This isn't national forest being blocked from fuel treatments by radical environmentalists; it's Republican ranch land decimated by a century of poor management practices and if livestock grazing is the key to preventing wildfires why is ranch country still suffering from near daily high even extreme grassland fire danger indices? Because Republicans are evil.
Just a hundred and fifty years ago bison, wapiti, bighorn sheep, pronghorns and deer cleared the grasses driving western South Dakota's fire years. If grasses remained in the fall tribes burned the rest.