Posted on 11/14/2018 10:23:06 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
During its review, the Commission found that California’s forests suffer from neglect and mismanagement, resulting in overcrowding that leaves them susceptible to disease, insects and wildfire. The Commission found commitment to long-lasting forest management changes at the highest levels of government, but that support for those changes needs to spread down not just through the state’s massive bureaucracy and law- and policymaking apparatuses, but among the general public as well. Complicating the management problem is the fact that the State of California owns very few of the forests within its borders – most are owned by the federal government or private landowners.
Among the Commission’s nine recommendations, it urges the state to take a greater leadership role in collaborative forest management planning at the watershed level.
(Excerpt) Read more at lhc.ca.gov ...
I urge everyone, especially Californians, to please spread the word however you can. A lot of people still refuse to put 2 and 2 together. For non-Californians: look to our burning state as what happens when one-party liberal Democrat rule governs you for decades. Imagine what such a reality would mean for the country at large.
*shivers*
https://lhc.ca.gov/sites/lhc.ca.gov/files/Reports/242/Report242.pdf
If the Gulf states get hurricanes and Federal bucks and insurance payouts, California is going to get theirs with “wildfires.” I think that’s what is at the very bottom of it. With all their immigration, California can’t afford to watch any of their taxpayer dollars go the Federal government. So they rake it back—and more—with forestry mismanagement and the chaos created by “wildfires.”
Latest number this morning was 50 killed.
If you want to get thoroughly PO, read this:
The Tinder Box: How Politicallly Correct Ideology Destroyed the U.S Forest Service
by Christopher Burchfield
This is mind boggling! PC at its worst!!
It seems to me, that the forests managed themselves pretty well for over 300 million years, until human hubris decided we knew better.
The Precautionary Principle, folks: when in doubt, leave well alone. Nature is a lot smarter than you.
This follows very closely what Trump has said all along!
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