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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A petition to region Forest Supervisor for the Sierra National Forest Dean Gould has received implicit 1,000 signatures successful little than 6 hours.
The petition follows disapproval implicit the handling of the Garnet Fire, presently raging successful the Sierra National Forest. By 7:30 p.m., it had received implicit 1,200 signatures.
"Over 50,000 acres person already been consumed by flames, and Dinkey Creek, a beloved assemblage jewel, stands astatine hazard of becoming the adjacent unfortunate of mismanagement and neglect. After decades of oversight failures, it is painfully wide that we request a alteration successful leadership," Frede Serrano, who started the petition, wrote.
Serrano said increasing up, the Sierra National Forest was his playground. He hopes his children volition beryllium capable to stock that pastime, but worries it is not imaginable nether the existent management.
"Under Dean Gould's supervision, the Sierra National Forest has been neglected. Overgrowth remains unchecked, creating a tinderbox waiting to ignite," helium wrote. "The consequences are not conscionable biology but profoundly idiosyncratic to those of america who cherish this land."
View of Garnet Fire from Avocado Lake. USFS Photo, Jen BarnhartCommenters notation the similarities to the 2020 Creek Fire, which devoured 379,895 acres of onshore and destroyed 856 structures just northbound of wherever the Garnet Fire is burning.
"This Garnet Fire is Creek Fire 2. Dean Gould has learned nothing! He indispensable spell now. We request existent wood absorption oregon determination volition beryllium nary Sierra National Forest left!" 1 commenter wrote.
Gould has been the Forest Supervisor for Sierra National Forest since 2013.
YourCentralValley.com reached retired to the Sierra National Forest for comment, but person yet to perceive back.
