I was in Lake Tahoe as a kid.
I’ll never forget a raccoon knocked on our door, I opened it, and he/she was standing on its hind legs with its front paws together like a human beggar.
Underbrush needs to be cleared, some trees removed, and allow controlled burns to happen.
Native Americans were aggressive in their land and animal management.
They didn’t just smoke pot and sing songs like hippies.
The Sac Bee would write articles about it.
The radicals were pantheists. It was a New Age thing. They believe spirits are in trees, rocks, etc. They think that "Nature" is sacred and must be preserved, however chaotic.
They believe, (and the Bee reported it; I was amazed) that it's preferable to lose a million acres of trees from fire caused by lightening than to lose an acre of trees from logging. Insane. We're talking "need to be lobotomized" insane.
Plus they had unlimited funding from ....... somewhere. Every time there was some commonsense solution to a problem (clearing dead trees and secondary growth), they would tie it up in federal court for so long that it became impractical.
The problem with California is ......... californians.
The problem with Oregon is ........ californians.
The problem with Washington ........