#controlled burn

[so-engery]

Oh no

[reasonsforhope]

“Out in the Klamath Mountains of northern California, fires are rushing through the underbrush, lighting everything they touch between the trees ablaze.

However these aren’t a danger to the rich hardwood forests, they are deliberately set by the Yurok and Karuk tribal nations—as a wildfire prevention strategy of all things.

As strange as it might sound to literally fight fire with fire, it’s something the tribes of these mountains have done for at least 1,000 years according to oral tradition.

Low-level and controlled burnings are in fact an ancient and successful forest-management practice. A cleared forest floor and less fine fuels such as leaves and ferns, makes it more difficult for wildfires to ignite and spread.

Wildfires have raged across California over the last half-decade, and out of these ashes sprouted a partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and the tribal nations of the Klamath Mountains.

In 2018 they began collaborating on the Somes Bar Restoration Project to use traditional fire techniques to safeguard 5,570 acres (2,254 hectares) of land covered in white, black, and tan oaks, Douglas fir, red fir, and madrones on steep slopes...

Mongabay reports that some forest managers have seen wildfires reach the edges of the forests managed by the Karuk and Yurok and simply go out on their own due to a combination of fuel-shortage and bigger, healthier trees.” -via Good News Network, 11/23/22

[jana-aych-ess]

fun science fact!

did you know that fire is a normal part of a healthy forest ecosystem? did you know that you are a forest ecosystem? did you know that your resistance to change has led the underbrush to overgrow? that the forest floor is thick with lost and forgotten selves, straining to grow toward the sun? that it has been a dry year? that a change is coming, whether you want it or not?

[whirlybirbs]

Ghost x reader for da people (the people is me)

; — controlled burn | simon "ghost" riley

summary: he isn't used to communing with ghosts. pairing: simon "ghost" riley / gender neutral!reader tags: no warnings, but may i offer spiteful ex-lovers anyone? a/n: 1.) lee i am sorry this is bad. 2.) everyone it's been a moment since i have written so i owe you all the biggest sowwies. anyways, who knew in 2022 everything would come full circle with me writing for the first man i ever really wrote fanfiction for, i love this ghost daddy hype moment

Laswell isn't expecting you to say yes, but favors owed are thicker than blood when it comes to this line of work. 

I don't do contract work anymore, Kate, you'd told her adamantly in the quiet of your office, I never liked living in the grey.

And yet, you're here; you're sat beside her in the heli as the bird dips low on the horizon line and begins to kick up plumes of dust in the night air. Sand whips around the spotlights illuminating the landing strip, and as the shroud parts, Kate can see there are gathered men ready to welcome the two of them. 

Your eyes flick across the tarmac. Even here — in the chopper, as you yank your headset free and gather your bag — you can feel eyes pinning you in place. Like a lone rabbit spotted by a waiting wolf. Eyes are watching in the darkness. Something stalks in your peripherals. 

And as eerie as it is, it's familiar. Like coming home.

A dust devil passes as touch down settles, and in the calm stillness of that single moment, you see him:

Ghost.  

You never did like living in the grey — and Simon knew damn well his whole life was bleeding out in shades of it. He's no longer sharply forged in the fires of morality; maybe one day he was, one day when he was younger. When there was less gilded, war-dazzled weight to his dress uniform's breast. When there was less grey in the unruly blonde buzz beneath his balaclava, when he had fewer starlight scars commemorating brutality etched into his skin. 

His righteousness is dulled now; but still efficient, still violent, still lethal. Simon sacrificed morality long ago when he fled that forge in favor of getting the fucking job done. Sacrifices had to be made. Every action had an equal and opposite reaction. 

He knows he isn't a good man.

You always did deserve good. 

Honest. 

Those owlish, dark eyes watch you greet Price. Gaz is excitable, Soap is impressed. He unwavers, hand on his holstered pistol and the other picking the skin of his thumb. 

Behind the balaclava, there's tension. But, when you turn and slip your eyes along the chipped skull face-plate, the hardness slips away. He catches it. Like a moment where Simon is back and he isn't the man in the mask. 

"Good to see you," he says in a voice quieter than a whisper.

You only nod.

In the debrief room, he continues his quiet watching. Ghost watches you listen, and he watches you pick at your bottom lip like you always do when you concentrate. 

Across the room, Soap slides him a subtle, questioning look. Ghost doesn't even flinch. The hardness stays. 

Pay attention, says his volleyed glare. 

Simon tries to forget the way you always did favor peppermint lip balm. 

When you finally speak, in that dimly lit room, the sound of your voice reminds Simon of the sting of a bullet graze. It's like the ricochet of a searing hot caliber biting soft flesh. 

Suddenly, Simon is twenty-seven again and in love. 

He fucking hates himself for it.

He's trying to kick his smoke habit — bad on the lungs. 

But, tonight he doesn't give a damn because the nicotine isn’t the only thing making his hands shake and letting the flame lick his fingers feels fine. A controlled burn. 

He isn't used to communing with old ghosts.

But, you're back in the grey.

[adorkabletwilightandfriends]

Adorkable Twilight & Friends - “Controlled Burn”

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[hobohobgoblim]

[caveundertree]

After a controlled burn

Tarkiln State Park

[humongouscasheaglebagel]

[environmentalwatch]

Train Derailment in Ohio

Train Derailment Causes Environmental Distress

The train derailment in Ohio should be bigger news than it is, as fish continue to die in a spreading radius around the fire but people are told it’s safe to go home. Late on February 3rd, a freight train belonging to Norfolk Southern derailed in the middle of East Palestine, Ohio, a town of about 4700 people. Five of the 38 cars that came off the tracks contained vinyl chloride, a toxic and…

[okiedoketm]

Last Line Tag Game

rules: write the latest line from your wip and tag as many people as there are words in the line. (make a new post, don’t reblog.)

I was tagged by @khrysopoeia! Here’s my latest WIP line from Controlled Burn (FMA age swap AU). This was hard, because I write things VERY out of order and I left off at like seven different scenes haha.

Ed stares at the Brigadier, clutching a bag of ice to a heavily bruised but miraculously unbroken nose. The front of his uniform and carpet at his feet are both spattered with blood. Tears are pouring down his face.

This sounds so dramatic out of context.

I definitely don’t have as many friends as there are words so instead I’ll just tag @primtheamazing, @grubus, and @lyralemon

[so-engery]

BLACK DOG BLACK WOLF BLACK DOG BLACK WOLF

[punkrockmixtapes]

Listen/purchase: Destined by Graduation Speech

[peopleofwiki]

Prescribed burning in Washington, USA. From controlled burn.

[starthistleparadise]

Starthistle Paradise was the site of controlled burns recently, so of course I didn’t find much to pick up. October 8th, 2023.

[mygrowingcollection]

Linda J. Cox

[pirateknight]

if there's one thing about Lou Wilson it's that he goes above and beyond when given the option to sabotage himself and his party