DellaSala, D.A.2022. Testimony for Hearing on “Fighting Fire with Fire:Evaluating the Role of Forest Management in Reducing Catastrophic Wildfires” in the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Subcommittee on Environment.

Link: https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/DellaSala%20Testimony.pdf.

Key excerpts:

• “The bottom line – Large wildfires burning under extreme fire weather cannot be stopped by suppression, nor controlled by thinning and other forms of logging over large areas. …”
• Attempting to moderate fire behavior at the local or landscape level, when large fires are mainly tracking global temperature increases and drought, is becoming increasingly ineffective.”
• “ We can never spend enough to solve fire problems by thinning and other forms of logging and suppression, as the global climate spins off more “megadroughts” and “heat domes.” Just like we cannot stop hurricanes, we cannot stop large fires under extreme conditions known to create their own weather fronts.”