Calif. Dems Blame Wildfires On Trump After Creating Tinderbox Of Regs
While Newsom and Democrats blame Trump, decades of lawsuits and red tape left forests primed to burn.
by Thomas English June 24, 2025, 2:48 PM
As California braces for another wildfire season, forestry experts warn that decades of regulatory mismanagement — not climate change or Trump-era budget cuts — have left forests dangerously overloaded with fuel. [emphasis, links added]
Democrats have blamed climate change and agency rollbacks for creating tinderbox conditions, but forestry experts see a self-inflicted wound that began festering as far back as the Clinton administration.
Three decades of environmental litigation, they say, have warped forest management into a Byzantine maze of legal delays and procedural dead ends, leaving millions of acres to accumulate fuel faster than anyone can clear it.
The blame game intensified Friday as Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom took to X to point fingers at President Donald Trump.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/california-dems-blame-trump-wildfires-red-tape/
