Devil's advocate here - SD hit the nail on the head, you know when 'we' say the federal gov't needs to cut spending? Well, that is part of the federal gov't spending that gets cut
It costs a lot of money to burn nowadays mainly due to liability but also firefighting equipment. In the marsh, you have to do all this by airboats and that gets expensive quick and then the staff time on top of that. Kisatchie has it down to an artform though, they use helicopters and can burn thousands of acres a day, but all this is contiguous burnable acres, I assume Lacassine is not one contiguous marsh
Smokey the Bear turned lots of people off on fire, wildfires are now somehow a bad thing but fire is what shaped all this landscape and kept trees from growing, kept the vegetation lush, etc. All it takes is one prescribed burn to get away and the feds will shut it all down.
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