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Originally Posted by Retiree
Isn't this like a yearly thing now? There surely must be some solution to this.
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Originally Posted by fuzebox
California refuses to do controlled preventative burning.  |
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Originally Posted by Rochard
You are either outright lying or you have no idea what you are talking about. Two miles from my house near Sacramento every year they do a preventive burn.
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Originally Posted by fuzebox
I don't lie and do not get involved in the politics on this board, so it is possible I simply have no idea what I'm talking about. I moved out of California in 2013 and fled a wildfire in Norcal in 2019 so my experience is limited.
Every year I do read in the news that California is negligent in their burns and forest cleanup because of environmental concerns, which is why they are more affected than regions with similar weather and fire risk.
Maybe this was the article that gave me my bad info? https://www.kqed.org/science/1994972...nia-worth-risk |
No you're not wrong, he's just being a "I lived here my whole life don't tell me how my state behaves!!!" boomer.
In October of 2024 the US Forest Service announced it would stop doing prescribed burning in California "for the foreseeable future" because they want to save resources for WHEN the inevitable forest fire happens instead of preventing it, completely ignoring local tribes who've been mitigating wild fires with prescribed burns since forever because MUH ENVIRONMENT idiots.
Literally the only way to prevent wild fires is with prescribed burns. This has been known since not long after humans discovered fire.