[RhoTheta]

The article explains what we already knew - bad forest management let the trash build up to where what fires happen don't merely clear the brush and grassland for regrowth, they actually sterilize the soil and destroy the trees. I believe Mother Jones is a liberal rag, but at least they got the crux right, even though they have to rub the belly of the Global Climate Change god as they trod their forest path.

They don't seem to get that the trees absorb the "greenhouse gas," CO2. That's good for the trees, and mitigates their feared gas. So now they are finding that the trees are full of stored carbon (from the CO2), but don't get the connection. They do now though seem to realize that a big forest fire releases more carbon into the atmosphere than is acceptable.

Perhaps California should be charged billions for Carbon Credits to offset the needless mega fires their envirowhacko policies have enabled.

[bert]

The news is all about underbrush and fire wood.

Having traveled in California as a tourist, I recall much of the state is a gigantic field of high brown grass that is always a fire risk. They say the cows escaped from Wisconsin to California but to me it seems their pastures were brown and shriveled.

I wonder, why doesn’t all those thousands of square miles of dead brown grass conflagrate?