I’ve never met anyone who enjoyed the spectacle of someone else’s home and land burning, but.... there you are!!!!
Yep, here I am, in the middle of areas of the country that have burned again and again and again because California environmentalists, California press and media and run-of-the mill Californians who keep giving credence to idiots have the unmitigated gall to tell people hundreds of miles away how to run their local range and forests.
If Joe-n-Jane California want this type of fire to cease happening, perhaps they’d best get off their buttocks, quit listening to the people who keep preventing proactive fuels management from happening, and *do* something about the fuel loading. That is going to require that common people have the balls to sue both land management agencies and environmentalist organizations who are responsible for the land management policies that have allowed these fuel levels to accumulate.
Found a fairly typical final EIS comments & responses appendix for fuels management in southern California.
It makes for entertaining reading:
http://www.researchlearningcenter.org/samo/planning/FireEIS/FEIS%20AppenF%20pp1-50.pdf
Think about this for a sec: this isn’t some huge issue. This is just something as simple as removing brush and fuel build up. Look at how many agencies are able to wave their particular regulatory authority in front of this effort.