I thought that this was a great interview by The Hotshot Wakeup with Frank Carroll, also the discussion following, which features some TSW regulars.
FWIW, I don’t agree with Frank about: Loper-Bright, and the idea that we can return to the old days of forest management, though I’d like to see more utilization of material from fuel treatments than burning in piles with the attendant carbon and particulates.
I thought his impassioned defense of forest planning for this was worth listening to, so I thought we might have a good discussion here. There was some new news for me, as I didn’t know that more retardant is (sometimes) used when “large scale agency ignitions” are a tool. If I understood that correctly.
I do think that some folks’ views in this discussion have been mischaracterized. Saying “it’s going to burn one way or another” is probably true, but hopefully agencies interacting with the public can decide that some ways are better than others. Or “these are old folks wanting to return to the old ways” or “a national 10AM policy is bad”; I see the views of these folks as much more nuanced than some give them credit for.
Anyway, here is a link, it should be open to all, so let me know if it doesn’t work for you. I subscribe to the Hotshot Wakeup, so I can’t tell.