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:* California’s deadliest year of wildfires has been decades in the making, with overlapping environmental rules, both state and federal, making fuel load reductions in forests and coastal chaparral nearly impossible ...<ref> [https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2018/11/27/trumps-right-about-californias-fires-it-wasnt-climate-change-two-new-california-laws-prove-it/#71404dfc22e3]</ref> | :* California’s deadliest year of wildfires has been decades in the making, with overlapping environmental rules, both state and federal, making fuel load reductions in forests and coastal chaparral nearly impossible ...<ref> [https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2018/11/27/trumps-right-about-californias-fires-it-wasnt-climate-change-two-new-california-laws-prove-it/#71404dfc22e3]</ref> | ||
Here's one solution: | Here's one solution: | ||
| − | *"This issue could be solved by what are known as prescribed fires, or controlled burns."<ref> [https://blogs.umass.edu/natsci397a-eross/controlled-burns-the-solution-to-californias-wildfire-problem/ blog at University of Massachusetts]</ref> | + | *"This issue could be solved by what are known as prescribed fires, or controlled burns. ... Burning supplemented by thinning generally is seen as the most effective combination in preventing severe wildfires"<ref> [https://blogs.umass.edu/natsci397a-eross/controlled-burns-the-solution-to-californias-wildfire-problem/ blog at University of Massachusetts]</ref> |
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
Revision as of 14:53, September 12, 2020
California wildfires in recent decades (1990-2020) are apparently worse than ever, and have been blamed variously on global warming and on illogical environmental policies. President Trump 'blamed the wildfires on "years" of poor forest management in California'[1]
- Forbes Magazine reported:
- California’s deadliest year of wildfires has been decades in the making, with overlapping environmental rules, both state and federal, making fuel load reductions in forests and coastal chaparral nearly impossible ...[2]
Here's one solution:
- "This issue could be solved by what are known as prescribed fires, or controlled burns. ... Burning supplemented by thinning generally is seen as the most effective combination in preventing severe wildfires"[3]