In California, in most areas, they have it down to a science, you are NOT allowed to clear your property, some towns ban any tree cutting what so ever, doesn't matter if you own the tree, you can't cut it. This is the height of stupidity when it comes to fire prone areas such as northern and southern CA. I am surprised they have taken an old concept and ran with it in the south. When I was young, all of the property owners kept their places as fire proof(dispose of useless brush, cut down trees that are too close to house, keep a green zone, if possible, around your house, etc.)as possible.
Most ranchers would burn the brush on their property in the spring and after the first rain, keeping that hazard down to a minimum. Now, of course, they aren't allowed to do this so fire danger is much, much higher. Thanks greenies, and thanks to all the CS people who let these fools quietly take over the running of the country.
Why should some private group of people get government funding to purchase these tracts of land? If every inch of Catalina were to be built upon, so fricken what?
Catalina today is mostly sage brush and about 150 bison brought over for a movie shoot in the early 1900s. Once conservancy guru referred to them as buffalo this morning on a cable show. These are North American Bison. They are commonly referred to as Buffalo, but that is an error.
This guy want’s his little conservancy to protect the wilderness he knows next to nothing about.
Perhaps we should get a bunch of chefs to run our military research. It would make just about as much sense.