According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), shrubs and live and dead vegetation are the most important factor in forest fires, being an easily ignitable fuel source that helps spread the flames quickly over vast distances. For a dry and warm state prone to fires, regular clearing measures removing this vegetation should be common sense. However, California has enacted several laws that heavily restrict such vital fire-preventing measures as logging, removal of dead trees, and clearing of dry underbrush.
Not only are those fires NOT climate change, they are made WORSE by their own policies.
It’s like standing in a pool of gasoline, thinking you are safe by holding up a sign that says ‘No Smoking’.
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the sooner california falls into the
ocean, the better off we’ll all be.
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I am reminded of the innocent fun of a simple gasoline fight in Zoolander.
Pensions and salaries take up the tax money.
Here’s the “Climate change” responsible for CA fires …
http://wildfiretoday.com/2018/01/16/ricky-whipple-arrested-for-setting-11-fires-in-san-bernardino-county/
An eco zealot trying to PROVE “climate change”. One of the neighbors noted that this cretin was starting fires on a day that the wind was blowing extremely hard.
Our society is filled with psychotic reprobates that are destroying the environment to “save” the environment.
This isn’t just a California issue – interior of bc has similar issues.
That’s what happens when enviro-nuts make the laws. “SAVE THE TREES!”
A few years ago, devastating fires in Australia were blamed on global warming, but their effect was similarly made so much worse by “environmentally friendly” legislation banning the clearing of trees and brush from private property. I recall reading about one rural resident who cleared his property and had to pay a huge fine as a result. But his law-abiding neighbours were all burned out and he wasn’t. Seems the fine was worth it.
I would have stopped the fire fighters using any water that could be used to save the delta smelt.
Hope he sent an account to his property insurers, and copies to his neighbours’ property insurers.
karma baby!! ohhhhh gawd I love it !!!
I got a 20 page document, ever growing, cases of Karma CLOBBERING those who have been unwarranted abusive of me.
anyway, I wonder if ANY enviro cleanup programs were shelved due to limited budget in turn due to the 10s of BILLIONS put into the coffers of the prison union and THAT in turn due to the ‘3 strikes’ law that put SHOPLIFTERS in prison for, yup, MANDATORY t-w-e-n-t-y-p-l-u-s year prison terms.
google it.
here, let me:
https://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol31_2004/winter2004/irr_hr_winter04_shoplifting.html
burn baby burn, but *be careful what you wish for*.
and here’s the link re the Aussie that saved his house from the inferno:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/fined-for-illegal-clearing-family-now-feel-vindicated-20090212-85bd.html
Yes, commercial thinning is important, for that reason and for increased tree growth.
In Victoria
About 200 lost their lives as a direct result of the ridiculous non-clearing
Rocket science warning:
shrubs and live and dead vegetation are the most important factor in forest fires, being an easily ignitable fuel source that helps spread the flames quickly over vast distances.
If only we had known!
Sounds like the perimeter ring around Ft. Mac.
Save the Smelt! After all … they aren’t native fish … they’re undocumented baitfish.
knowing something is not quite the same as understanding it.