Dr. Seeley Hits the Front Page Dr. Brien Seeley’s editorial on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle’s opinion section July 14, is a well-reasoned appeal to try a radical new approach to fighting wildfires. It impressed an editorial board enough to make it their featured Op-ed leading their Sunday coverage. It’s the product of Dr. Seeley’s decades-long research into short-take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft and his drive to make small airplanes emissions-free. It’s also a challenge to American ingenuity and technology to help save us from the current plague of pollution and resulting wildfires. These don’t take place only in remote backwaters like Paradise, California, but now even in once-protected enclaves such as Pacific Palisades and Beverly Hills. Dr. Seeley makes three big points in his editorial. One, we have the technology to fight wildfires today, products of the high-tech industries in which California abounds. Two, carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires are more than twice those from our …
