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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · 27d

Sad, isn’t it.

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Aug 30

Fogos: Só três empresas de meios aéreos contrataram 177 milhões com o Estado www.publico.pt/2025/08/30/s...

Só três empresas de meios aéreos contrataram 177 milhões com o Estado para combater fogos

Este ano foram assinados 21 contratos com oito empresas, a maior parte dos quais com duração de três anos. Só para este ano custo estimado ultrapassa os 86,7 milhões de euros.

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Aug 26

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Aug 26

Federal judge says #APHIS has legal duty to consider preventative measures — rather than spray first, ask questions later approach — in its program of insecticide spraying to kill native #grasshoppers on millions of acres in 17 western states.
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Court Orders Less Reliance on Pesticide Spraying on Millions of Acres of Western Rangelands | Xerces Society

A federal judge in Oregon has confirmed the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s legal duty to consider preventative measures — rather than a “spray first, ask questions later” approach — in i...

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Aug 26

Federal judge says #APHIS has legal duty to consider preventative measures — rather than spray first, ask questions later approach — in its program of insecticide spraying to kill native #grasshoppers on millions of acres in 17 western states.
xerces.org/press/court-...

Court Orders Less Reliance on Pesticide Spraying on Millions of Acres of Western Rangelands | Xerces Society

A federal judge in Oregon has confirmed the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s legal duty to consider preventative measures — rather than a “spray first, ask questions later” approach — in i...

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Pajaro505 @pajaro505.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Note, industrial tree farms greater fire risk.

Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · Aug 21

Had a great time chatting with Jericka Duncan on @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy last night about our new study on increased fire severity in industrial forest plantations.

You can watch it here!
www.cbsnews.com/video/megafi...

Megafires more likely to occur on private land than public forests, study finds

More than 44,000 fires have burned nearly 4 million acres across the U.S. so far in 2025, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, but only a handful have been megafires. A new study found t...

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Aug 12

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🇵🇹Common Raven🇺🇸 on X: "From Region 3 Wildland Alerts: a thought-provoking comment on ⁦@SWCCNewsNotes⁩ management this fire year. #AZFire #NMFire 🔥🔥🔥 ⁦@DavidNelsonNM⁩ @markfire ⁦@WildlandFirefig⁩ ⁦@NIFC_Fire⁩ ⁦@Rubonist⁩ ⁦@HotshotWake⁩ https://t.co/ru8nhT55tS https://t.co/eJg906HMUq" / X

From Region 3 Wildland Alerts: a thought-provoking comment on ⁦@SWCCNewsNotes⁩ management this fire year. #AZFire #NMFire 🔥🔥🔥 ⁦@DavidNelsonNM⁩ @markfire ⁦@WildlandFirefig⁩ ⁦@NIFC_Fire⁩ ⁦@Rubonist⁩ ⁦@HotshotWake⁩ https://t.co/ru8nhT55tS https://t.co/eJg906HMUq

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Aug 12

With some questionable fire management on top of it all.

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Heating up around here!
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Southwest Coordination Center (SWCC)

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Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X) @tonyveco.bsky.social · Aug 11

🔴⚠️🔥♨️ The current #heatwave in iberic peninsula fuels #wildfires to both in Spain and Portugal. The latest #Sentinel3 view + FRP of 11 August late morning clearly shows multiple hotspots especially in Galicia CastillaYLeon IRTrancoso #climateemergency

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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · Aug 11

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As California burns, new research shows smoke is wildfire’s silent killer

The official death count from the Palisades and Eaton fires was 30 — the real number may be 15 times higher.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 11

One of these days, I will build an antenna out of crutches.

(easy to do) #hamradio #randommetalobject

Free crutches leaning against a metal table

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 16

Picture of ranchers searching for lost and burned #cattle in the Santa Fe National Forest after a controlled burn during July.
#LagunaFire
#NMFire
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www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 16

Forest after the #Laguna controlled burn as ranchers search for lost and burned cattle.
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#NMFire
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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 16

Animal suffering as a result of a National Forest's controlled burn.
#Burned cattle.
#LagunaFire
#NMFire
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Image of suffering cattle burned by a controlled burn set by the Santa Fe National Forest in July 2025.

🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 16

We have had no moisture up here, no monsoon at all, so I guess the grass isn't coming back any time soon. Allegedly the strike was quite a distance from where they began the burn. It will all come out at some point anyway. Meanwhile I feel so bad for the ranchers up there with their burned cattle.

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 15

I was just trying to come up with something that would make it worth burning so much land in one place. It certainly was not to help the rangeland, so what else could it be? I hope not burning just because they could.

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 15

The Forest Service is, but they will move mountains not to make the ranchers whole.
Was the idea behind 30,000+ acres burned that they are trying to establish a timber planation on that plateau?

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 15

They also said they need to get vets and medication to many injured cattle, ASAP.

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 15

Not just forage, but USFS burned quite a few cattle alive, too.

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Pajaro505 @pajaro505.bsky.social · Jul 15

Could mean some of the grass forage was burned. Setting up expectations to reduce stocking rates for fire recovery? Give new cover some time to increase....?

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Pajaro505 @pajaro505.bsky.social · Jul 15

No mention of aviation, a measure of effort. I would have like a general description of the types involved: PJ woodland with 60% grass cover, Ponderosa pine at low density, oak scrub beneath....etc.

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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 15

It was a very tense, very contentious meeting as you can see, so little info was given, unfortunately.

🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 15

Watch recording of the #LagunaFire community meeting on July 14 2025
#NMFire
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🇵🇹Bewickwren🇺🇸 @bewickwren.bsky.social · Jul 15

Operations Section Chief says they saw that communication was an immediate problem when they took over and cattle were one issue they needed to attend to quickly. Cattle were burned by previous team.
#LagunaFire
#NMFire
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