I’ve read somewhere that you can’t maintain fire breaks in California because the Greenie extremists have declared they interfere with the migration of some endangered mouse. I have no idea if that is true, but it is certainly on-brand and seems at least likely.
It probably is true, those environmentalists need to be on the front lines of any wildfire that comes up. Let a dozen or so of the burn to death and they may stop being so free with other peoples lives.