Extreme Draught Leads to Wildfires, Mudslides (click here)
Deforesting no matter how it occurs causes mudslides.
It's the climate crisis. This is a summer time occurrence normally.
This is part of the negative feedback loop Earth is experiencing. The worse this plays out, the worse it gets.
There will be grassland fires in the Midwest states. They have to be prevented in spreading to crop lands. Irrigation is the best method to avert drought and maintain moist soils.
Moist soils are best achieved in 'drip trickle' irrigation. It also preserves water rates used in irrigation. The infrastructure to farmers can best help them take care of their soils and crops. Perennial species are best as they hold moisture to the deeper parts of soil, rather than annuals that chronically open the land to parching sun and atmospheric heat.
Farmers are going to have to make that change and the federal authorities have to help with GRANTS to achieve these outcomes. If not this year? When?
I don't lie. This is not going to get easier in waiting to make that leap of faith. Farmers become their own authority. All they have to do is look at the tree lines that border their crops to know what works in perennials.
If farmers don't feel secure in the investment they will make into perennial crops ask them to place only a small plot of their farmland in perennials with government subsidy to carry the sampling out so they understand what they are doing.
Every inch of farmland is unique and a farmer understands his own assets. I would also like to see more land returned to farmland. We are going to need it. Today, there is less farmland than only a couple of decades ago.
