#RakeAmericaGreatAgain

**presence** · 11-20-2018, 08:10 AM

#haravointi is contextomy

I never was a big Trump fan. I do agree with the man on the fake news though.

I also agree with him on poor forest management in California:

The #RakeAmericaGreatAgain mockery is yet another fine example of the media having an opportunity to educate the public on a prescription for natural disaster prevention and instead choosing to spin; falsely deride over political party lines by purposefully using an opponent's words out of context.

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Vox-20 hours ago

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Gizmodo-Nov 19, 2018

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WFMZ Allentown-Nov 19, 2018

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The San Diego Union-Tribune-Nov 18, 2018

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Finland does rake its forests;
the Finnish are world leaders in biomass energy.

Raking in forestry has nothing to do with yard rakes used by hand to move leaves.

This is a slash rake:

http://www.wilco.co.nz/slashrake.html

This is the purpose of slash raking:

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/forestry...ep/raking.html

This is the public funded by Californians 2018 Little Hoover report, which makes a very clear and concise case on the state of California's

poor forest management:

https://lhc.ca.gov/sites/lhc.ca.gov/.../Report242.pdf

Finland's biomass raked off of its forest floors and converted to "black liquor" which then becomes terrawatts of renewable electrical energy:

https://imisrise.tappi.org/TAPPI/Pro.../05EPE182.aspx

Finland is a world leader in this process:

https://bioenergyinternational.com/o...ass-for-energy

Unfortunately very little of the biomass in the US is used to create electricity; its mostly just burned off on site or pushed into rows to prevent downhill erosion during reforestation. Most US forest is managed by federal and state bureaucracy; mismanagement is to be expected.

In the two maps below you can see states which prescribe controlled burns of raked biomass and states which endure wildfires:

After the image above one should stop and reflect (mind you I'm shooting from hip on these statistics but roughly):

- East half of the US 80% of forest is PRIVATE

- West half of the US 80% of forest is PUBLIC

it should also be noted, again from the hip:

- US: 50% of forest is public, 25% is corporate, 25% is family owned.

- Finland: 25% of forest is public, 15% is corporate, 60% is family owned.

Note the lack of ACRES of prescribed burn in the huge state of California.

when pondering the scale 1001-50,000 acres of prescribed burn annually in cali...

note

1) the "Camp Fire" alone consumed 150,000 acres.
2) California has 33,000,000 acres of forest
3) about a million acres are consumed annually by wildfire

This is what correctly thinned, well managed timber looks like after slashed piles have been raked:

This is what a forest fire looks like before its a forest fire:

This is a slash harvesting machine in Finland picking up raked biomass:

Finland then chips the raked slash before using as fuel:

In the past 40 years, biomass and black liquor have become major contributors to Finland's power grid:

**phill4paul** · 11-20-2018, 08:16 AM

I find using "Engrish" quite un-PC and demeaning to Chinese Americans.

**goldenequity** · 11-20-2018, 10:46 AM

Impressive post...
I'm guilty.
I repent.
I'm sorry.
It was an e-z shot at Trump and I took it.

**goldenequity** · 11-20-2018, 11:01 AM

I will not however stop targeting the empire nor his part in it. K? K.

Today I discovered a twitter account that has still managed to survive the purge..
https://twitter.com/Americas_Crimes

here's some free samples...
I archived to single jpg files... (to retweet/spread/copy/paste)
cuz ya just nvr gno how long the tweets will stay up.
doo ya.

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