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are not allowed to do it or we can’t do it, is we’ve do have the resources or the funding
<br /> which is a huge problem being on our Island. We don’t have anything for the fireman,
<br /> whether it’s the supplies, the training, or just money to do it. And it’s very
<br /> heartbreaking especially what everybody experienced over the last week.
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<br />CT: It’s complicated, control burning requires all the infrastructures and access to serve as
<br />firebreaks during, even if you didn’t have control burning. It’s really complex, a lot of folks
<br />are also gun shy we’ve have some destructive fire escape, that was set initially that had
<br />escape, one big one, being Makua Valley. So, there is definitely hesitance around that,
<br />although I would say, Maui County is doing it, Kauai County wants to start. Now only for
<br />fuel management and I would say primarily for training purposes that they can better
<br />respond in the future. There is definitely a use there and require a lot more research. I
<br />just want to point out that Stanley still has his hand up.
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<br />AA: Stanley if you have a question, you have to pose in the chat.
<br />If you going have a Comment you have 3 minutes – go ahead Stanley
<br />Stanley – ??
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<br />SW: I do not know what happen.
<br />CT: Maybe he dropped off ---- He just left.
<br />AA: One more question.
<br />BL: Brian District 1 – Once again Clay, is this situation, invasive grasses burning, depositing
<br />ash and re-growing, is that going to get any better or is it going to get worse.
<br />CT: It’s interesting question, I mean, it’s probably the erosion events after the fire.
<br /> So, if you burn, like most of that, which is immediately available for plant consumption,
<br /> and all these grasses are adapted to fire. So, they re-sprout immediately also many from
<br /> seed after they burn. I think it’s more like question like the intervening event. So, we’ve
<br /> seen like, Puwa…Mixing up my watershed…like Kawaihae fire, I think it was 2015, right,
<br />which was immediately followed by these heavy rains, above that just washed
<br />everything down to Pelekane Bay. So, it’s like more so I think, if you just burn and the
<br />grass grows with rains, and burn again, then grass grows and you might be seeing these,
<br />you might be seeing the sort of slow small slight declines in fertility, but I think it’s more
<br />the vulnerability to those larger scale events. So, another example that comes to mind
<br />is on Mauna Kea, there was a really gnarly fire there in 2010, kind of right across the
<br />road from…From… Right up Mauna Kea State Park, burnt out up the mountain, like hit
<br />tree line, essentially …vegetation line and so that was and big wind event came and they
<br />were actually and forest service had plots there were to show, all of a suddenly this
<br />huge crash and nutrient availability after that fire…That is what the attributed to. So,
<br />again it’s this combination, it makes us vulnerable to these other impacts. Not just the
<br />fire itself, but the other stuff that happens after the fire.
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