Image source.Oh brother. On this recent news story from the White Mountain Independent about the Wallow Fire, our eyes got stuck on this little tidbit:
Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Team members continue working in the fire area evaluating soil and vegetation impacts from the fire and formulating plans to mitigate future damage. Plans are underway to obtain large quantities of straw and grass seed and to spread it over the most significantly damaged Forest Service lands prior to the monsoon season.Who wants to bet that grass seed is native species?
Not us.
It kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it? Really. With non-native species like Lehmann's lovegrass fueling the fires on the Coronado National Forest, non-native cheatgrass having been responsible for the Murphy Complex fire, and non-native buffelgrass being the primary fuel for fires in the Sonoran Desert, one wonders what the hell the agency is thinking. That it will be different this time?
It's depressing that the agencies don't see the tail they keep chasing. What looks like soil stabilization this year looks like cow feed next year and looks like a habitat-destroying nutrient-sucking highly-flammable pest for decades after that.
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