Jerry Brown is clinically insane and should be removed from office on psychological fitness grounds. Just yesterday, standing amongst ashes, he went off on climate change as the culprit.
I live in the middle of gov control forest. It is a massive fire hazard. We get fires up here all the time, had to evacuate one year. Forest service won’t let anyone cut down the trees killed by the pine beetle.
We have dead trees all over the place, then lighting comes and boom, fire.
The Enviroweenies would rather see a tree burned then to be harvested to provide lumber for homes and furniture and other useful works. The lives and destroyed homes of so many are at their feet. They need to learn and help with the actual management of the forests.
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When you get a haircut, get a barber you have known...
Poor forest management: A state of affairs persisting since 1990 ...
It makes sense to anyone involved in the wood industry. The same people that pounded spikes into trees to harm the loggers were finally able to install their perverted anti-industry/anti-growth agenda.
Back in the day, the most efficient logging procedures (high-lead logging) created quite a bit of inflammable debris ("slash"). Our federal contracts required us to control burn it to prevent spread of future fires (see Jerry Brown/California).
The process was thought so important that Forest Service reps were onsite to assure proper performance. It usually involved a very long day in a smoky environment and they were right there with us.
http://www.pushback.com/Wattenburg/articles/NowTheyHaveBurnedLosAlamos.html
For me this is the definitive writing on managing forest fires. Dr. Wattenberg had late night radio show from the bay area. He worked at Lawrence Livermore Labs and was called the smartest man you can talk to for free (on the radio).
The state of Cal ignored him on gasoline additives and clearing underbrush from forests, He died 3 months ago, but his work is on the internet.
Legitimate experts have written a ton of books on this. Trump and the loggers could not be more right. Let’s put aside the fact that these idiots from the gov turn everything they touch to garbage, just for the moment. These drones have absolutely no knowledge of how to manage forested land. They have their precious little nihilistic agenda and whatever degree that shows they were suitably indoctrinated and that is it. These wildfires can be laid squarely at the feet of the left and they won’t take their blame because they are terminally and galactically stupid.
And they “rake” the forest too:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXh_HwJaXT8
And dimwits everywhere ridicule POTUS, again, for knowing what he is talking about.
I’ve scanned most of the comments and missing from what I saw is the biggest factor I see in our area:
People who complain to their legislators about smoke from prescribed burns.
Hence, they’ve all but stopped in the face of clean air regulations and a burdensome permit process.
Thus, those complaining about the smoke in CA can cry me a river. In fact, they should shed their tears into Lake Mead; they’re gonna need it.
“Citing research from the U.S. Forest Service, the council backs such methods as thinning stressed trees and prescribed burns to reduce wildfires but said “only a small fraction of high-risk acres are being treated.””
Aptly-cited, no forest management is complete without fire in the equation (prescribed burns). Can’t do it. Fire is part of forest ecology. To ignore that would spell disaster for the health of forests in the long-term; we’re seeing some of that now after a century of putting out fires which should otherwise have burned.
For those who can’t access https://ijr.com/loggers-trump-forest-management-ca-fires/
I learned that the U.S. government owns 57% of the forests in California. I assume the fires are not among those forests. Does anyone have any info on that? I keep arguing with libs on USAToday who say the government owns 90% of the forests and is totally responsible for the mismanagement. I certainly don’t believe that for a minute because what land the gov owns would be national parks, etc., but what I am seeing is the fires are in and around where people live.