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To: Libloather

Smart people with money want to get around damaging government actions such as not allowing proper forest management.


7 posted on 12/03/2018 5:54:13 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182; gaijin
Smart people with money want to get around damaging government actions such as not allowing proper forest management.

When will OGC [Orkin Government Control] become cost-effective?    thinking face

26 posted on 12/03/2018 10:01:30 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Oh those elitists!


28 posted on 12/04/2018 2:32:18 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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“Smart people” would not build with easily combustible materials, in a forest in an area subject to severe wet / drought cycles (for thousands of years), and yearly hot / windy events, leaving much of the forest amongst their homes and businesses, and with plenty of prior examples of severe fires to consider. Nor, once the problems became evident (California has been having lesser but still destructive wildfires for many years) would they tolerate policies that prevent forest and land managers from doing their jobs.

One can still go onto their favorite mapping app and check out close in sat views of Paradise, CA, prior to the Camp Fire, and what you see is a town immersed in the forest, or perhaps as properly, forest immersed in the town. Given weather conditions that are and have been for a long time typical for the area, it, and many other towns in the region, are disasters primed & waiting to happen.

Worse... I have seen several vids of burn-out areas of Paradise, after the fire. There are block after block of every building burned down, yet, some trees, even pine trees, survived and still have green foliage on them. One fire official stated the buildings themselves provided the biggest source of fuel for the fire, once it was in town. What this tells me is that most buildings’ fire resistance was poorer than the trees.

A good thread, once it gets going, discussing these factors and more, is here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3710927/posts


39 posted on 12/06/2018 12:17:07 PM PST by Paul R.
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