{"id":799139,"date":"2022-09-14T05:54:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=255032"},"modified":"2022-09-14T05:54:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:54:02","slug":"a-bigger-hammer-wont-stop-large-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/14\/a-bigger-hammer-wont-stop-large-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bigger Hammer Won\u2019t Stop Large Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an Aug. 29 letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, lawmakers \u2014 mostly from California \u2014 said they&#8217;re worried about reports the Forest Service remains short-staffed on wildfire crews. They urged officials to attack fires rapidly. But unfortunately, these same politicians also support more logging of our forests to &#8220;reduce&#8221;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/14\/a-bigger-hammer-wont-stop-large-fires\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/14\/a-bigger-hammer-wont-stop-large-fires\/\">A Bigger Hammer Won\u2019t Stop Large Fires<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an Aug. 29 letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, lawmakers \u2014 mostly from California \u2014 said they&#8217;re worried about reports the Forest Service remains short-staffed on wildfire crews. They urged officials&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799189,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799139\/revisions\/799189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}