re: NAPA Valley is burning today with the Glass Fire zero percent contained

These homeowners should sue the politicians and the Sierra Club for the gross mismanagement of public lands for the last 50 years.

your Governor seems to think bad forest management is to blame.

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Newsom didn’t admit it, but the outrageous cost to remove a few dead trees from private land is a consequence of California’s Byzantine environmental regulatory patchwork.

This is California’s big secret: it’s not climate change that’s burning up the forests, killing people, and destroying hundreds of homes; it’s decades of environmental mismanagement that has created a tinderbox of unharvested timber, dead trees, and thick underbrush.

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Forbes

there are hundreds if not thousands of articles like this.

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These homeowners should sue the politicians and the Sierra Club for the gross mismanagement of public lands for the last 50 years.

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I’m not defending California forest management because it’s been a disaster, but there are thoughts that these fires have been started by arsonists.

So sad. Love Napa.

Calistoga burger cashier cir. 2006, roadside berries and old faithful geyser of California TYFYS.

Really dont care

A single controlled burn once a decade would not have done anything. But continuous, every few years, controlled burns would have dramatically reduced the severity of these fires and most would have been able to be contained. As it it now, there is so much fuel for these fires in the form of dead trees everywhere that they explode as a fire bomb and send embers everywhere. These embers land in other extremely dry areas due to winds and light those in fire. Treat this and now it’s an out of control nightmare.

I remember what folks in California said after Katrina...Why rebuild, it’s just going to happen again. Why are we wasting all this money on New Orleans?

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California REALLY needs to reassess their electrical infrastructure (since that is what they have blamed many of the fires on) and they they REALLY need to revamp their forestry management processes (since that is making things significantly worse).

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Nah. It's easier (and lazier) to blame climate change.

And it's just as easy and lazy to blame forest management. The reality is that the fires are similar to Louisiana's coastal loss in that there are numerous issues at play, both within our control and outside of our control, that come together to create a perfect tinderbox. You can do a little something to help fix one aspect, but unless you look at it as a whole, then nothing will be done.

That sucks but decades of bad voting and really ignorant environmental policies are coming home to roost for the west and in particular California.

Keep voting for politicians who value a tree the same as a human and this is the result you get.