Posted on 08/09/2018 10:31:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Nothing will stop California’s wildfires unless the idiotic Californians change their land use and management practices. Letting scrub, brush, and dead wood build up makes wildfires a sure thing.
The only to prevent that is logging, or by doing controlled burns.
I’ve heard that the American Indian use to do controlled fires.
You know, we could save TONS of money just by taking the advice of this editorialist. No longer will we need to train firemen to handle complicated equipment and go into dangerous situations.
Nope.
From now on, we just have to send some touchy-feely liberal firemen to go to locations near fires and discuss “climate change.” That will stop the fires dead in their tracks, with no risk whatsoever to the firefighters.
Why has no one thought of this brilliant idea before?
I was in the middle of the Holy Fire. We’re on mandatory evacuation orders. I ignored them. I’m still here. I can leave but I can’t get back in.
They quit doing controlled burns because the rich people up on snob hill complained that the smoke ruined their view of the valley below and the sunset. Great, how do you like your entire area code looking like it was nuked?!
These fires will burn until November if the firefighters get their way. Putting them out too fast means shutting off the overtime pay, can’t have that. There’s no shortage of them that go out and start fires to keep that overtime pay coming. Being treated like a hero when you come home with enough money to buy a new truck in cash is pretty nice.
Until goats are reintroduced to keep the browes down and the Tinder at Bay, California will always experience Wildfire devastation through mismanagement of the undergrowth. You cannot cut it out manually but goats can do a pretty good job of eating through the browse thus keeping the fires from spreading so quickly. This used to be common practice but I guess it was undesirable to have herds of goats and goat herders up and around the hills and canyons that dominate the California landscape around the coastal areas which seem to be affected on a yearly basis during the dry spells.
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