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This always comes off as buck-shifting to me. Newsom is the governor of the 5th largest economy in the world, I'm sure there are many unconventional mechanism

• op00to 5y ago
  Get him action on what exactly?
• seanmcdirmid 5y ago
  Much of the land in California, and throughout the west actually, is owned and managed by the federal government. State government doesn't have jurisdiction, they don't have funding, etc, to do much about that. The BLM isn't just an acronym used for Black Lives Matters (as wall as national forest land and national park land).
• giantrobot 5y ago
  National Forests are federal land owned and managed by the federal government. Why would you think the governor of any state would seize those forests? Even if California decided to force those forests to be open...they're being closed because of the extreme fire danger in many parks. Why in the world would the state want to open them up? Fires don't care about property lines. A fire that starts in a National Forest will happily burn through an adjacent state forest or community.
  • akira2501 5y ago
    > Why would you think the governor of any state would seize those forests? Why would you come to that conclusion? He's a politician, I would assume he'd use _political_ pressure to get action. > Fires don't care about property lines. Precisely. If the land is being managed in a way that is raising risk and danger to surrounding land, why would you stand idly by and defer to Washington D.C?
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