Posted on 07/29/2021 7:13:38 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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California burns.
Every stinkin’ year.
Before the white man showed up it’s estimated 4 million acres per year would burn. That’s of 33 million acres.
It’s since been kept to “around” 1 million acres per year, with last year being the exception at 2.5 million acres.
Of 33 million acres.
Ultimately, it renews the forests. Keeps them healthy.
Building in a California forest virtually ensures you’ll have a fire emergency in your lifetime. Some twice.
But the forests ALWAYS COME BACK. And in better shape.
Take it to the bank and don’t be stupid.
:We also gave those who wish to destroy space to do that as well.”
— Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
If that's so burn it in controlled sections.
Don't let it go out of control during droughts, an important distinction Congressman McClintock made from typical years.
And don't let it burn when so many in this era have motives to arson.
Government has failed. Or worse.
That used to be true, but because of the “no thinning” policies of the last 30 years fuel loads are so high when the forests burn now it destroys the mature trees and canopy which was not the historical case. This renders the forest sterile and leads to erosion and loss of soils for sustaining growth, a bad deal all around.
The forest got only ONE kind of thinning 300 years ago. And 5,000 years ago.
Fire. And more fire.
Often deliberately set by the natives. Not controlled burns, but “estimated” burns based on oral history.
And massive fires set by nature.
It was to the benefit of all which resided here.
But makes for suck ass summers and fall seasons. So much smoke it’d choke a pig.
Then it rains.
That’s a whole ‘nuther story.
Did I mention earthquakes? Homos and Illegals?
All the effin’ commies?
You don’t want to come here. Not even to visit. And you don’t want to buy anything from here either.
Man...I do long for the California of 50 years ago.
Man...I do long for the California of 50 years ago.
Yeah, me too, when I lived in Los Banos.
“If that’s so burn it in controlled sections.”
Nobody has the balls for that anymore.
It’s not...er...always exact.
The USFS has it right.
If a fire starts on federally managed forest, it’ll burn until nature puts it out.
But there’s a lot of buildings in directly adjacent STATE managed forests...some municipalities too.
It’s the state that should be thinning their own back yard, and surrounding 40.
And it should look like a curated horticultural exhibition garden.
Or, it has to be turned over to private owners who are empowered to take care of it.
Down the street from my home town of Modesto.
Born and raised here. Since returned in retirement.
It’s still better than anywhere else.
Writing.
A Poem.
No, the government doesn't have it right.
All the way in Eastern New York in some places we need a change of clothes twice a day because they're smelling like chimney soot after a few hours. And there are two people who had to be hospitalized for respiratory ailments in the last week.
The feds have it right.
Neglected to include: in my block alone.
There are enormous fires in the west every year.
They can’t be stopped and they can’t be put out.
Sometimes the wind blows the smoke elsewhere.
People have to adjust to that.
Because there’s not a damn thing anyone can do about it in the aggregate.
GRAZE IT OR BLAZE IT
McClintock is right. This fire could have and should have been stopped. The feds even blocked state firefighters from stopping it.
So keep writing your short poetry lines hoping that they will stand out more than truth.
And keep praising the feds-- under Biden.
It has been USFS policy for at least 40 years.
The wind shifts and some weakling calls it a crisis.
USFS has it right.
Not in every case. USFS has firefighters, and doesn't have them for nothing. So the policy is not every year, every situation "let it burn".
70,000 acres ablaze and AQI often pinning orange and red 3,000 miles away for weeks now.
In this scenario it's on Biden, and that's why he's meeting with seven state governors today about a problem he let go.
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