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Sad, isn’t it.

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.

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

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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...

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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Note, industrial tree farms greater fire risk.

🇵🇹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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With some questionable fire management on top of it all.

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Heating up around here!
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🔴⚠️🔥♨️ 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

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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Free crutches leaning against a metal table

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

(easy to do) #hamradio #randommetalobject

Picture of ranchers searching for lost and burned #cattle in the Santa Fe National Forest after a controlled burn during July.
#LagunaFire
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Forest after the #Laguna controlled burn as ranchers search for lost and burned cattle.
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Image of suffering cattle burned by a controlled burn set by the Santa Fe National Forest in July 2025.

Animal suffering as a result of a National Forest's controlled burn.
#Burned cattle.
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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.

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.

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?

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

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

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....?

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.

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

Watch recording of the #LagunaFire community meeting on July 14 2025
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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.
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Santa Fe National Forest admin Anthony Madrid says communication may not have been clear in their running of #LagunaFire
Says cattle “were impacted “
From meeting on July 14 2025
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UPDATE 9:25pm
Gallinas Ranch has been updated to "Go" status. Residents should make sure to
Evacuate animals.
Open gates so livestock can escape if needed.

New evacuation notice for those north of Gallina tonight due to the escaped controlled burn.
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AGAIN!
WHO would have thought that doing a monster controlled burn during D3 drought, when it hits 95°F and 9% RH daily, was a poorly conceived notion?
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Wildfire near Grand Canyon expands tenfold over 24 hours The White Sage Fire in Jacob Lake, Arizona, has grown from 1,000 acres to nearly 11,000 within the last 24 hours, according to the government.

“What officials have dubbed the White Sage Fire in Jacob Lake, Arizona — roughly 650 miles southwest of Denver, Colorado — has grown from 1,000 acres to nearly 11,000 acres…” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... via @nbcnews.com

#AZFire #Arizona #JacobLake #WhiteSageFire cc: #GrandCanyon