Soĺ Cal fires

67/6barracuda said

I hear a lot of grumblings about forestry management in California its non-existent because of regulations and tree huggers.

I’m not trying to poke the bear here but after years of years of fires. I think it’s time for folks to try something different. Not deforestation but control burns and selective cuts of forestry management. Importantly clearing dead fall, under cut the brush, clear fire breaks. Plenty of states do this it’s nothing new.

It shouldn’t be a cataclysmic event every time the wind blows. They’re all about green energy, but I’ll be damn if the California gov just lets the state burn down for politics. It’s easier to ask for federal funding. It’s getting out of control vote everyone of those bastards out.

Prays for those affected.

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I could go on about this. The earth WILL burn itself if we don't. If the land is left unmanaged the natural fire regime will return and get on a natural cycle of burning every few years to decades. The reasons we should manage forests are dictated by urban sprawl, mountain communities, and wildland-urban interface. Also, if we are going to be putting these fires out when they are small to try to PROTECT these spaces we are actually doing the worst thing for them. Since the inception of public land management we have been setting ourselves up for mega fires that burn down complete towns. What I mean is we PREVENT the fuel loading from getting cleaned up, THEN, a spark and high winds will burn the rest eventually.
Prescribed Fire, Logging, Tribal land management allowed to be controlled BY the tribes, AND letting the fires burn while being managed for a dual purpose of medicinal fire and control. The 'Let Burn" policy need to stop being demonized. In this case it is too late. The fires they should have let burn last May but put out causes fires like the Palisades Fire.