[env-trinity] The Mercury News: The reason that California wildfires are worse than ever

[Colleen OSullivan]

Whiskeytown NRA was very pro-active in their veg management, including
annual prescribed burns and other prescriptions. I'm heartbroken that it
didn't seem to do what it was designed to do. These fires are catastrophic
- there is no effective prescription for these fires, under current
conditions.

Colleen

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Kelley Lincoln <lincoln at kmud.org> wrote:

> I urge us not to start pointing fingers. Alot of people are really hurting
> right now. My grandparents lived in Lake County the last thirty years of
> their lives. Many places lost to fire there in the last few years were not
> out in the hinterlands other than being small towns. The maps I've seen of
> Redding suggest many suburban neighborhood people lost homes.  Santa Rosa
> last year had suburban neighborhoods with streets and fire protection wiped
> out.  Blue Lake CA almost went up that same night that the Santa Rosa fire
> started.  It was an heroic effort that kept that little town from burning.
>
> Where is the line after which People may not use or develop the property
> they have? I know those decisions are left with the local government
> because of a sense of democracy and local control.
> That's what county general plans are all about.
>
> Legalization of marijuana is going to do a lot to reduce the outward
> population pressures so that's a relief.  And these fires are also pushing
> People out of California and back toward urban centers.
>
> But in all of the blaming I've seen in the last day or two, from the White
> House down, I see little that talks about the things that make the most
> sense to me: fire fuel reduction and prescription burns to counteract a
> century of well-meaning, government subsidized, yet altogether misguided
> fire suppression.
>
> And prescription burns have the added benefit of being part of the cycle
> of life that many plants are evolved around.
>
> Kelley
>
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2018, 6:26 PM Denise Boggs <denise at conservationcongress-
> ca.org> wrote:
>
>> The National Forests aren’t the problem. It’s people living in areas they
>> shouldn’t be. Interesting stats on CA and the wildfires throughout the
>> state over time. Some of these areas have burned multiple times and people
>> keep rebuilding in the same place. The state’s landscape is prone to fires
>> and they are going burn regardless. Climate change only makes it worse.
>>
>> “The Carr Fire burning in Shasta County was started by a single spark
>> from a towed trailer on a road in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. It
>> then quickly raced into high-end new residential subdivisions such as Lake
>> Redding Estates, where it destroyed 65 upscale homes.”
>>
>> *The reason that California wildfires are worse than ever*
>> The Mercury News
>>
>> As California grows, people are moving into the rural edges of cities
>> where we weren't before -- creating an "expanding bull’s eye’ effect" of
>> higher wildfire risk, according to a new study by geographer Stephen M.
>> Strader of Villanova University. Read the full story
>> <https://apple.news/AO3JyVOhZQvS4W7C_ou3raQ>
>> Denise Boggs
>> Www.conservationcongress-ca.org
>>
>> "Some of them were angry at the way the Earth was abused; By the men who
>> learned how to forge her beauty into power; And they struggled to protect
>> her from them, only to be confused; By the magnitude of the fury in the
>> final hour."
>> 'Before the Deluge' Jackson Browne
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