All national forests in California closed to visitors: No Labor Day camping, hiking, biking

SF Gate ^ | August 30, 2021 | Ryan Sabalow

[Oldeconomybuyer]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With fires raging across the state, the USDA Forest Service is closing all 20 million acres of California’s national forests to public access for two weeks beginning Tuesday.

In an announcement Monday, the Forest Service said the closure will extend through at least Sept. 17.

This closure starts at noon Tuesday.

Those caught entering Forest Service lands — including developed campgrounds, hiking trails and recreation sites — face fines of up to $5,000 for violating the order.

The announcement extends a closure that was already in place for the Forest Service’s nine national forests in Northern California.

[rktman]

Currently most of the roads are “closed” towards the south side of the lake. From Tahoma on the west side headed north is open up through Tahoe city and up to I-80 and on the east side just south of Incline Village is open headed north to Mount Rose hiway to head east into Reno. Hwy 50 out of Carson City to the lake is “closed”. Not sure if they are road blocked or not to inbound other than fire crews and medical. If you’re in a boat in the middle of the lake you might be okay. :-}

[RinaseaofDs]

Washington is its own malignant brand of stupid.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

It is all part of Agenda 21, which is a UN plan to starve the US of energy so as to destroy our political influence. Part of Agenda 21 is to move rural Americans into dense packed housing in cities. Stores on the ground floor and people living on the upper floors.

I believe with all my heart that the forestry “mismanagement” is intentional and designed to create conditions to burn rural people off their land and get them to move to cities and suburbs. After burning them out, it won’t be so hard to buy their land and say they can’t move back into rural areas due to fire risk, etc. I am not saying this will be done today, but it is part of the eventual plan of Agenda 21.

These fires are indeed intentional.

[1Old Pro]

State owned land, that’s the problem. It would be better managed by private organizations.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I grew up in Monterey bay area 72-83, I haven’t visited in over 10 years, I can’t believe what has become of my home state.

[EEGator]

I will live in the woods like a Neanderthal before I live in Philly or Wilmington.

[foreverfree]

bump

[hanamizu]

I lived in San Jose as a child from 76-85.
It was an awesome place to be a kid.

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For me it was Long Beach in the 50s. After a winter storm with clean air you could see that SoCal was surrounded by snow-capped mountains. The snow didn’t come to you, you went to the snow. As you say, a great place to be a kid—back then.

[EEGator]

We moved from San Jose to New Jersey in the Summer.
We got off the plane and I asked, what is this?
Mom said humidity.
Not a good first impression...

[NormsRevenge]

Over 3000 fire fighters on this one fire alone.

Reports of fires being blown thru the canopies of the trees by winds,

All those years of gathering dead wood and logs and no willingness to develop better ways to fight these pyrhhic piles of pulp.. little things like access roads,,

Maybe they need to build giant firebreaks, altho its tough to stop embers from traveling all over the place and jumping lines at will.

They have Blackhawk helis that can make it faster to water and back and the DC10 is there but this baby is hugh and still going. Needless to say, the terrain is a bit rugged as well.

It’ll be the holidays before they get this one contained much less out at this rate.

[hanamizu]

Mom said humidity.

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I live in SE MO now. I’d visit my mom in San Diego and hear the locals complain about 25% humidity and how muggy it was, I’d just roll my eyes.