Posted on 01/11/2025 5:52:03 PM PST by NoLibZone
Trump once blamed officials who didn't, as he put it, "rake their forests" to prevent the spread of wildfires. Trump was likely referring to a forest management technique of clearing out underbrush.
One strategy that accomplishes this is creation of shaded fuel breaks. According to Fire Safe San Mateo:
"A fuel break is a strip or block of land on which the native vegetation has been permanently reduced and/or modified so that fires burning around it can be more readily and safely controlled. Fuels within fuel breaks are reduced in volume through thinning or pruning, or are changed to vegetative types which burn with a lower intensity and offer less resistance to fire control efforts."
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The idea is to create these breaks in areas so the fire fighters can contain wildfires better. These are accomplished through "a carefully planned thinning of dense tree cover and the removal of underlying brush" and are "placed in strategic locations along a ridge, access road, or other location such as around a subdivision" according to Fire Safe San Mateo.
n December, 44 Republicans voted against HR 10545, the American Relief Act of 2025, which provided funds for wildfire prevention measures, including $75,000,000 for the "construction or maintenance of shaded fuel breaks in the Pacific Regions."
These 10 Republican Senators voted against bill:
Mike Braun (R-IN)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Josh Hawley (R-MO)
Ron Johnson (R-WI)
John Kennedy (R-LA)
Mike Lee (R-UT)
Rand Paul (R-KY)
James Risch (R-ID)
Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
All of the GOP Senators above are currently still serving in the 119th Congress except Braun and Romney who retired.
“Meidas News”
DNC Gaslighters.
and how many democrats did?
A list for the House ‘critters?
How much graft did Schumer cram into the bill before the vote?
Consider the GDP of California. What happened to having the “rich pay their fair share”?
>> the American Relief Act of 2025
sucks because they planned to completely “rake the forests” and fill the reservoirs the very first week of January 2025...
IF Kennedy voted against it then it was the right move.
“In December, 44 Republicans voted against HR 10545, the American Relief Act of 2025, which provided funds for wildfire prevention measures, including $75 Million for the “construction or maintenance of shaded fuel breaks in the Pacific Regions.”
...and $8 BILLION for high-speed rail in California.
Sometimes it’s best to get the ENTIRE STORY before bashing Republicans.
(actually, I have no idea what was in that bill, although certainly it had far more than just the $75M, which is drop in the federal bucket, and is also a drop in the state bucket - so where was Newsome on this issue?)
Laughable.
I hope Kennedy lives forever.
Kennedy... Johnson... Lee... Paul...Hawley...
Sounds like it wasn’t that they didn’t want the underbrush cleared, but that they had a problem with the construction of the bill.
We all knew it. It was ALL the republicans fault that deep democrat Los Angeles, in deep democrat LA county, in deep democrat California failed to plan or prepare for wildfires.
Not to mention this was one of the usual pork bills that gave 10s of billions to “green” special interest cronies and a few Pennie’s for fire prevention which would have NEVeR sent a single penny to any fire prevention activity anywhere in the nation.
States have rights AND RESPONSIBILITIES to safeguard against forest fires for their state. Why should Florida and LA or MS tax payers pay California for preventing Forest fires? Those states never have forest fires.
This is a deceiving article. This bill which passed was about a whole lot more than fire prevention.
What’s this have to do with the fires that are burning right now? Nothing.
The complaint about the no votes would like everyone to pretend there was no other items in the bill that anyone could have reasonably objected to, or that no matter how serious any objections may have been that they should have voted yes just for the one measure the complaint is concerned with.
Sorry, garbage collection and “omnibus” bills should not be passed. Serious voting should tackle and get the votes for serious issues one bill at a time.
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