Is there still no active forest management out there? I know it may take a minute to catch up due to years of neglect. “Let’s see...leave the dead undergrowth in place and appease the fruitcake “environmentalists”, or have electricity and enjoy refrigeration, hospital care, etc, etc...hmmmm”
The environmentalists are so strong and powerful they’ve destroyed the laws, rules and regulations to keep the lights on. Newsom is blaming PG&E but it’s the government forcing this stuff. Environmentalists demand shoddy power like windmills, and solar which would go down anyway if connected to the power grid....then there is the rules and laws against wood stoves and barbecues( in some areas).
These idiots believe in their platitudes and do zero cost analysis nor hardships sand power which means production, all production including gas stations comes to a standstill. Banks close, everything stops except people with generators which run on gas or diesel.
The 61/90 democrats( read leftist communists) in Sacramento love a good socially engineered crisis. Taxes and forcing a confabulated Green New Deal is their goal. Killing their own fools who voted for them is their goal. Destroying borders and forcing us to finances illegals is their goal. In essence their goal is to fundamentally change California and the United States one blacked out home at a time.
It goes beyond forest management out there.
They get 70 mph and higher straight winds. That requires civil planning that breaks up urban and suburban area with broad bands of cleared agricultural land which can be plowed and backfired (or just plowed with the monster equipment we have now) to create firebreaks wide enough to stop the spread of fire in that kind of wind.
The irresponsible idiots developed the land that once acted as needed firebreaks. Now there are homes and shopping centers and gas stations in an unbroken area.
Unfortunately we have California shitheads moving into Texas screwing up our civil engineering in the same way.
Don't decaying plants and trees give off CO2? Irony.