re: #657 SanFranciscoZionist

Thank you, I believe in the fires. Have environmentalists actually prevented brush clearing and fire-breaking that should have taken place?

AP: Feds didn’t clear brush in wildfire area

Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans earlier this year to burn away highly flammable brush in a forest on the edge of Los Angeles to avoid the very kind of wildfire now raging there, The Associated Press has learned.

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The agency defended its efforts, saying weather, wind and environmental rules tightly limit how often these “prescribed burns” can be conducted.

In the late 70’s I spent a summer on a Forest Service thinning crew trying to bring the forest back in a more natural census of tree species and sizes, the goal was to allow selective logging every 70 years or so and let fires burn through naturally.

The project was stopped, lawsuits by environmentalists.