“ Trump Blames California for Fires. He Should Check to See Whose Land They’re On.”

Sailor said:
Exactly. Why is AOC not flying a polluting jet to the West Coast with Al Gore doing demanding liberal states do something about it.
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She is a freshmen congresswoman with no power. Other than over the tiny right-wing brains. Gore has not been on stage for a long time. Try and get up to date on him. That was a truly stupid post.
 
Who ever wrote that Politico article in the OP really does not understand the dynamics of the problem. Here is an example of their ignorance.
Meeting timber production goals has little to do with improving the health and resilience of national forest lands. However, it is an easy metric to assess the performance of forest managers as well as a way to satisfy the timber industry.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/03/cal...ybe-piece-of-the-puzzle-to-cut-fire-risk.html

Some believe the state’s timber industry could be part of the solution by selectively thinning forests of trees. Timber harvesting has fallen sharply in California since the 1990s.

Despite opposition from some environmental groups, there’s talk of the need to remove more barriers to logging given that wildfires have become bigger, deadlier and faster moving. California’s timber laws are considered the most stringent in the nation.

“You’ve got a lot of fuel, you’ve got dead and dying trees, and a lot of hot weather — and it’s a recipe for disaster,” said Assemblyman Jim Wood of Healdsburg in Sonoma County, a member of the Senate and Assembly conference committee on wildfire preparedness and response. He represents a district with forested areas where October’s wine country firestorms ripped through neighborhoods and destroyed thousands of homes and claimed 31 lives.

According to the California Forestry Association, tree density in the Sierra Nevada is too high when compared with the region’s historical rates, creating an elevated fire hazard. It estimates there was an average of 40 trees per acre in the Sierras roughly 150 years ago but puts that number today at hundreds of trees per acre.

“Fire used to naturally go through the forest, and with 40 trees per acre, the fire will mostly stay on the ground, without creating a catastrophe,” said Rich Gordon, president and CEO of the association, which represents the timber industry. “This has been a wake-up call for California. We have to do something different to prevent these catastrophic fires.”
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In 2018 the Republicans WISELY held out to increase timber production on Federal lands because they knew overcrowding of trees leads to disease and excess fuel in the forest. Selective logging promotes healthier forests and fewer forest fires.

From the OP

After years of debate, Congress finally reached a compromise in 2018 to ease this zero-sum approach by allowing the Forest Service to tap into disaster assistance funding when firefighting costs exceeded the Forest Service’s annual fire suppression budget. They called it the “fire fix.”


Fixing the funding problem for firefighting was very important. But the long delay in reaching this compromise meant fire prevention efforts lagged for years, allowing the buildup of fire-prone vegetation that will fuel future fires, likely contributing to the fires sweeping through California and the Pacific Northwest today. Why the delays? Because some Republican members of the House and the Senate refused to fix the funding problems unless measures were included to limit environmental reviews and legal challenges to future timber sales and insisted that funding for future national forest timber sales be increased.
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Micawber said:
LOL, and it is not only that. He literally should know that a lot of this fire stuff is in red state country with the AG signs of tractors saying Farmers for Trump all over the damn place.
"Fed Up? Vote Republican" the signs scream. Anto vax signs. Etc It's TRump's turf that is burning, not the inner city.

He is shitting on his own peeps. :laugh:

Trump isn't too bright.
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Trump isn't going to win California or Oregon anyway.
 
Nordberg said:
She is a freshmen congresswoman with no power. Other than over the tiny right-wing brains. Gore has not been on stage for a long time. Try and get up to date on him. That was a truly stupid post.
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Really? Her mouth does not agree with you. And Gore? He is the hypocritical asshole that got all you gullible folks enthralled with this. Even after he is dead he will be held accountable.
 
archives said:
“ Nearly 60 percent of the forests in California, 25 percent of the forests in Oregon, and 44 percent in Washington are national forests. For the most part, the forests burning across the West—the fires the president blames on state officials—are on federal lands.”

https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2020/09/15/trump-fires-california-federal-land-415431

Just clarifying a simple fact the wingers certainly never heard on Fox

And guarantee by the middle of next week Trump, along with the First Lady in high heels, will be “touring” the States hit by Sally, took him a month to visit the west, pretty much ignored it during all that time, but he will waste no time getting the photo ops in the hurricane States
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Federal lands aren't that big. Another thread fail.
 
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