www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1D510qpZDxsQWQ3hk1qSAe8L49-zaX50&usp=sharing - zerg90 map of usfs sites and state forestry sites
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Nov 30 2022 - written up
https://house.louisiana.gov/housefiscal/DOCS_APP_BDGT_MEETINGS/DOCS_APPBudgetMeetings2022/FY23 Department of Agriculture and Forestry.pdf
25 pages approx
$1.5M to buy 7 replacement fire suppression dozers
$500,000 for major repairs to 33 dozers
average salary $55,000
590 total staff for Department of Agriculture - 114 of them are firefighters
400 fires per year - 2019 2020 2021 - (there were 1,000 fires in 2014 ish)
155 firefighters in 2008 - 114 now
looks like their funding dipped after 2008 (for the entire agency -
not just forestry) - no mention of why - but there is no clear
indication that the number of fires increased
local fire departments probably control a large number of wildfires in
Louisiana with small pumpers - State Forestry has the dozers (and
maybe some aircraft) - but there are probably not too many huge areas
of forestland in Louisiana that the local FDs cannot reach in under 30
minutes - yes this might account for the 33% drop in State Forestry
firefighters but no major obvious rise in wildfire losses