Well stated!!!
Mark Twain once wrote about his stay in the Tahoe Basin. The campfire got caught up in wind gusts and spread to the forest and began to circle the lake. It burned so hot they had to get on boats and go out in the lake due to the intense heat!!!
Others tell how in the days that Virginia City and Carson City were being built with trees from the west shore that were floated across the lake, that the lake was so filled with slash and crud that you could almost walk on the water!
I guess Tahoe wasn't so blue in those days, nor of such pristine clarity, either! Now multi-levels of governments squander multi-millions each year on erosion control projects to mitigate for all the despicable development! Now the fires will dwarf all the erosion from development!!!
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and all the militant EnvironMentalists whose only solution to sprawl is suffocation by heavy handed governmental mandate will see Mother Nature wipe out much of their expensive and expansive efforts.
My question to them is: How do you suppose all the developable semi-level or gently sloping land in the basin got there in the first place? (Can you dummys say erosion?)
And my other question is: What do superhot fires that bake the ground like ceramic cause the following rainey winter? (Can you dummys say hyper-erosion?)
And my last question is: What makes these fires superhot? (Can you dummys say ladder fuels and choking underbrush caused by your stupid governmentally enforced policies for the last 40 years?)
Yes, and to all you NIMBY Urban Refugees that support EnvironMentalist thinking they're protecting "Your (New) Back Yard," I can ask these pointed questions because Lake Tahoe, the jewel of the Sierra is SierraWasp's BACK YARD!!!