Enviromentalal extremists insist on not "thinning" "old growth" forests, so when they burn, they do huge damage. Elsewhere this is true, too.
Water shortage is made worse, by not husbanding as much as possible behind dams. Instead water runs to the seas. I believe they just finished the first newreservoir, in like 40 years or something.
Not California. I remember when environmentalists objected to Lake Powell in Utah, since it dammed beautiful canyonlands.
