I don’t understand why the states themselves don’t have a rainy day disaster fund and the power to help their own citizens, in addition to educating their residents about the need to be prepared. Why does the Federal Government need to be involved?
Well, if I were to make a wild assed guess I would think it likely that some large areas which don’t have adequate fire preparation used to have proper preparedness before the bureau of land management declared that it must cease.
Call me a cynic.
But Texas defied the fedgov in the form of the EPA and other states should do the same.
“Why does the Federal Government need to be involved?”
Fedgov claims they own the land and their mismanagement set the stage for all of these fires. The USFS is now in the business of preserving forests as wildfire fuel instead of utilizing them as a resource for wood products. Eco-nazis.
Today is the first day in 2 weeks that the air here in north Idaho has been classified as “Unhealthy” which is a little better than “Very Unhealthy” and “Hazardous” where it has been. Visibility is about 1/2 mile and there hasn’t been any rain in 70 days. I’d still take this over hurricanes though.