Dr. Peter Kolb Discusses Wildfire Smoke and Tracy Stone-Manning
MSU Extension Forestry Scientist and author of the Montana Forestry Minute, Dr. Peter Kolb was the guest on Thursday’s Talk Back Program to answer questions from listeners.
The discussion turned to the many wildfires burning in the west, and Kolb described some terrifying statistics about smoke and its effect on the climate.
“Your typical average forest has somewhere between 100 to 300 tons of organic matter per acre,” said Dr. Kolb. “When that burns, roughly a quarter of it immediately volatilizes into smoke and three quarters of it stays there and that slowly decays and also becomes a gas over time as the wood rots.”
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Comments from around the country have been pouring in after TC Energy, the Canadian company behind the Keystone XL Pipeline, pulled the plug on the entire project, months after President Biden cancelled U.S. involvement on his first day in office.
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Crime Prevention Research Center Director on Election Fraud
John Lott, Director of the Missoula based Crime Prevention Research Center, published an opinion piece in Town Hall on February 10 stating that President Trump was not lying about voter fraud, a major piece of his second impeachment trial.
Citing numerous examples, Lott laid out his argument that President Trump was justified in claiming there was voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election, including how election observers were deliberately kept from their tasks.
“You go back over past elections, it s really hard to go and find any election where observers were excluded from watching the actual ballot counting as systematically across many places, as we saw in this election,” said Lott. “You have to ask yourself why Democrats who controlled those counties would go to such extremes to make it so that observers couldn t observe. You know, even when they would try to pull out binoculars to try to watch the ballot c