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| 8d ago | Can you talk more about forest management/controlled burns? I'm trying to settle the arguments in my head about how effective those really are about preventing blowout wildfires like these. ×2 | +2.0 |
| 9d ago | These people also seem to forget that you can do CONTROLLED burns for fire dependant systems, whereas wildfires are anything but ×2 | +1.0 |
| 9d ago | A lot of people think of "controlled burns" or "indigenous forestry management" as buttons you can just press to end all wildfires like it's Civ V and evil Californian and Canadian libs just refuse… ×2 | -1.5 |
| 9d ago | wildfires are becoming something like earthquakes, there's no way to stop or prevent them. These are putting out energy equivalents to multiple nuclear detonations, water bombing isn't doing much … ×2 | -5.5 |
| 9d ago | Honestly, all I've been thinking about. We absolutely need indigenous controlled burns/knowledge/science and Land Back. The wildfires are happening because of colonialism !- Not because of "PeO… ×2 | -2.0 |
| 9d ago | Doesn’t Florida have a really good controlled burn program too though? I feel like I’ve read that before but maybe it’s somewhere else. ×2 | +1.5 |
| 9d ago | Wildfires Are Burning Through the Night. Firefighters Are Running Out of Time. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/w... We need better management of downed woody debris, combined with controlled burning, … | -2.0 |
| 9d ago | Our forests are made mainly of evergreen (pine, spruce) which is highly flammable and burns for days, especially of there's lots of undergrowth. As California has tried to explain, you can't get in… ×2 | -2.0 |
| 9d ago | Yokels watching a controlled burn of a barn is also very Lynch | -1.0 |
| 9d ago | Sorry to hear. We had controlled burn today so it’s smoky around here too | -1.0 |
| 9d ago | We had similar trouble during the worst of the Pocket Fire - in 26 years of local wildfires and controlled burns, this is the first time the smoke made me feel downright ill. Someone told me that's… ×2 | -4.0 |
| 9d ago | Why the fuck do we allow our forests to go up in flames every year? Those logs are worth money, and we know that these areas can be managed w controlled burn. Drives me nuts. Every GD year. We lose… | -8.0 |
| 9d ago | The audacity of this farce of delegates from Michigan who believe wildfire smoke can be controlled due to HUMAN FREAKIN' failing to be conservative in their capitalism that drives up CONSUMPTION of… | -9.0 |
| 9d ago | This wildfire smoke is just putting me to sleep c o n s t a n t l y. It's awful! I've got stuff to do, and yet every 15 minutes my brain's trying to make me fall asleep again. And that's with weari… | -4.5 |
| 9d ago | “cross border fuel reduction” buddy i’m not sure controlled burns are viable atm i think those would just become more wildfires in these conditions ×2 | -3.0 |
| 10d ago | it’s almost like you never experienced a forest service contractor trying to do a controlled burn in red flag winds and then burning half the state down | -7.0 |
| 10d ago | I know it can't be controlled but all the smoke from the wildfires in Canada is extremely trauma-inducing cuz of what happened to me in April I nearly collapsed on the way home from work yesterday… | -7.5 |
| 10d ago | Today my random wells of knowledge came in handy. I explained how wildfires start, air currents, and that indigenous peoples would do controlled burns in order to reduce the chances of giant fires,… ×3 | +3.0 |
| 10d ago | there's a difference between thousands of acres of uncontrolled wildfire decimating the ecosystem and killing animals vs controlled burning for forestry growth. and it takes ~time~ to regrow, which… ×3 | -6.5 |
| 10d ago | Agreed, though it’s worth noting that the current batch of wildfires are a product of lightning (natural phenomenon made worse by climate change) and cuts to Canadian and US forestry services (whic… ×2 | -1.5 |
| 10d ago | I live in Erie, PA. I just saw the smoke just 30 minutes ago while I'm at work. I used to live in California where wildfires happen and Florida where controlled fires happen. I know that smoke and … | -2.0 |
| 10d ago | I live in Erie, PA. I just saw the smoke 30 just 30 minutes ago while at work. I used to live in California where wildfires happen and Florida is controlled fires. I know that color anywhere. | -2.0 |
| 10d ago | Does it make sense to play both of the semifinals in climate-controlled stadiums and then the final outdoors in what is predicted to be 88-degree weather with a strong potential for wildfire smoke? | -3.0 |
| 10d ago | We can stop making it worse (by actually dealing with climate change), and try our best to use controlled burns to lower risk. But wildfire suppression as a form of a carbon emission control seems … ×2 | +1.0 |
| 8d ago | “Extreme weather. Fire weather” “Rather, it’s a landscape that waits, and then burns catastrophically under extreme weather.” “We are not necessarily seeing more fire than ever everywhere, but ra… | -2.5 |
| 9d ago | This is NOT fog. This is the near South Side of Chicago blanketed with a thick layer of Canadian wildfire smoke. It’s hard to breathed. Burns your eyes. | -6.5 |
| 9d ago | Yep, and field burns. We had a brief respite with gorgeous clear air, and then the wildfires we thought only happened in CA and Canada came to us. Now we live with Watch Duty going off constantly … | -4.5 |
| 9d ago | I say we're about 10 years away from entire central US states are burned via a massive wildfire incident. Or as I call it the incident that burns all of USA's farmland aka food. | -8.0 |
| 9d ago | In today’s episode of “as the world burns down around us”: We live in northern Virginia but can smell smoke from the Canadian wildfires today, which is nuts. | -2.0 |
| 9d ago | The same country that stopped indigenous people from doing prescribed burns which led to massive uncontrolled wildfires is talking reckless. | -6.0 |
| Tier | Title | Category | Source | Feeling | SentimentSentiment Score (-5 to +5) LLM-assessed emotional tone of coverage. -5 = extremely negative/alarming 0 = neutral/factual +5 = extremely positive/hopeful The colored bar shows position on the scale. Emotion badge uses Plutchik's 8 primary emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation. |
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| T3 | Controlled Burns Have Saved Thousands of Giant Sequoias | wildfire_prevention | yale.edu | restorative, hopeful, protective | trust |