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: ''Forbes Magazine'' reported:
 
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:* California’s deadliest year of wildfires has been decades in the making, with overlapping environmental rules, both state and federal, making fuel load reductions in forests and coastal chaparral nearly impossible ...<ref> [https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2018/11/27/trumps-right-about-californias-fires-it-wasnt-climate-change-two-new-california-laws-prove-it/#71404dfc22e3]</ref>
 
:* California’s deadliest year of wildfires has been decades in the making, with overlapping environmental rules, both state and federal, making fuel load reductions in forests and coastal chaparral nearly impossible ...<ref> [https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2018/11/27/trumps-right-about-californias-fires-it-wasnt-climate-change-two-new-california-laws-prove-it/#71404dfc22e3]</ref>
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:*'According to the California Forestry Association, tree density in the Sierra Nevada is too high when compared with the region’s historical rates, creating an elevated fire hazard.' [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/03/california-timber-firms-maybe-piece-of-the-puzzle-to-cut-fire-risk.html California timber industry may be a ‘piece of the puzzle’ to help reduce state’s raging wildfires]
 
:*'According to the California Forestry Association, tree density in the Sierra Nevada is too high when compared with the region’s historical rates, creating an elevated fire hazard.' [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/03/california-timber-firms-maybe-piece-of-the-puzzle-to-cut-fire-risk.html California timber industry may be a ‘piece of the puzzle’ to help reduce state’s raging wildfires]
  

Revision as of 14:58, September 12, 2020

California wildfires in recent decades (1990-2020) are apparently worse than ever, and have been blamed variously on global warming and on illogical environmental policies. President Trump 'blamed the wildfires on "years" of poor forest management in California'[1]

Forbes Magazine reported:
  • California’s deadliest year of wildfires has been decades in the making, with overlapping environmental rules, both state and federal, making fuel load reductions in forests and coastal chaparral nearly impossible ...[2]
CNBC reported:


Here's one solution:

  • "This issue could be solved by what are known as prescribed fires, or controlled burns. ... Burning supplemented by thinning generally is seen as the most effective combination in preventing severe wildfires"[3]

See Also

References

  1. Trump hits California officials over wildfires: 'You've got to clean your floors'
  2. [1]
  3. blog at University of Massachusetts