This would have never happened thirty years ago when the forests were properly managed and cared for. Now the forests are churches to worship in and not to manage. The dirt worshipers have taken over the forests and now they are dead and dying as a result leaving nothing more than a devastating fire waiting to happen. The deer, elk and wildlife are all dead now thanks to the Sierra Club and their partner groups who have made the forests off limits to real forestry management.
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Ironically, the state of California has a gas tax that yields between 700 and a billion bucks per year.A paltry 30 million is thrown at the environment. A trickle of what is taken in.
Show me a more important place for the money than removing brush from trees that create what bray has so eloquently shown happens with no forest mgmt. the overall solution however is as bray suggests get the mgmt. out of all forests nation wide out of the hands of govt. and into the hands of private enterprise. when i was in college in the 60's even back then companies like weyerhauser https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/ in the tree business at the time planted ten trees for everyone they harvested.They were managed impeccably and the world was a better place for it.
Gov. moonbeam is to blame for these fires and the death of countless Californians.
Ironically, moonbeam will undoubtedly ask the federal govt. for money to rebuild what he tore down! And even more ironically he will probably get it!!
Just another warning for those who have half a brain this is what happens when liberals run anything! Pure chaos from top to bottom. People are harmed or worse yet as in this case killed.
This is a good article re the CA fires. Moonbean has a lot of blood on his hands as does PG&E.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/16/misguided-environmentalism-blame-californias-wildfires/
They met yesterday, and the next thing we hear is that Brown quickly has legislation signed allowing utilities to raise rates to cover their insurance shortfalls. My speculation tells me Brown asked, was told NO unless, and not until....so Gov Beam went the other route.
DJT won't throw more money down a rathole that the manager won't try to fix.
And Bray's point about idle resources costing money, rather than earning it won't be tolerated...which could now be more difficult with a dem house