You have four factors:
1. In this region, it typically doesn’t rain much from March to October, with the bulk of the 26 inches a year in the winter months.
2. There’s a high pressure system on the eastern side of the state...blowing air over the mountain in a westward fashion. When it arrives in the Napa Valley area....it bring warmer winds, thus drying out things.
3. Intense house building over the past thirty years in the valley. Anyone who had real money and worked in San Francisco....wanted a house in this region.
4. Then we come to forest management. People want to see real growth and they think that’s the beauty of forests. Well, if you consider the dry conditions for seven months out of the year....it’d make more sense to trim everything back. National Forest Service won’t do that because it frustrates people who complain about the ‘look’.
I would agree on the controlled burns but if you bring this up with folks, they get all hyper that you are causing beauty to disappear.
So how do they like "the look" now?
I would agree on the controlled burns but if you bring this up with folks, they get all hyper that you are causing beauty to disappear.
Ain't nothing more beautiful than thousands of acres, burned to the ground...houses and all....hundreds missing...probably dead.