California Wildfire Devastation Was Entirely Preventable Through Proper Land Management

[rangerrebew]

 California Wildfire Devastation Was Entirely Preventable Through Proper Land Management
The apocalyptic wildfires wreaking havoc across California on an annual basis are entirely preventable.
Tristan Justice
By Tristan Justice
September 3, 2021

President Joe Biden declared the Caldor Fire threatening communities at Lake Tahoe, California an emergency Wednesday night to dispatch federal resources to the relief effort.

That blaze, only 25 percent contained as of this writing, has already burned more than 200,000 acres with roughly 32,300 structures in the path of destruction, according to a local California news outlet.

Meanwhile, the Dixie Fire 120 miles north of the area scorched half of Lassen Volcanic National Park and remains only 52 percent contained. Billed as one of the largest in modern California history, the inferno has already engulfed 1,300 structures and continues to spread, presenting a nightmare to the 12,000 people who live within a five-mile radius, as calculated by The New York Times.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/03/devastation-from-california-wildfires-was-entirely-preventable-through-proper-land-management/

[skeeter]

Although I have no proof I suspect the lack of land management has much to do with misappropriation of money formerly earmarked for it, that is, money that has since been funneled to public sector pensions and other preferred causes of the ruling class in CA.

They will never be held accountable.

[PeteS in CA]

This has been true in CA for decades. Between Federal and State laws/regs plus the Enviros-Courts-Complex, proper land management is blocked or easily blocked in court. As the recent fires (and less recent) in Oregon demonstrated, CA is not the only state that has this land manglement problem..