re: Climate Change/Fires in the West

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Amazing how not a single person in charge of the states on fire want to take responsibility for the fact that they have done Zero Forrest management in 20 years. There is so much underbrush, that nature’s solution has always been wildfire. But no, it’s climate change!!! Idiots...

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It's been more than 20 years in the making, but yes intentional forest management for all the wrong "naturalist" and eco-nut reasons has created the situation. Debris build up, thickets of dry undergrowth, dead trees, no thinning of the forest, and no fire breaks have all made a tinder-box. People where not even allowed to gather twigs and branches for fire wood. Protecting the spotted owl, mice and snakes as part of the natural ecosystem were the claimed causes. Now they are crispy critters.

Yeah, there is an arson craze going around very similar to that in Australia where the arsonists were often the same people protesting for more eco-nut forest mismanagement.