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I remember reading an article about the wildfires which was super eye-opening. Basically they said they could burn 100K acres a year, and still have an unaccep
by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
I remember reading an article about the wildfires which was super eye-opening. Basically they said they could burn 100K acres a year, and still have an unacceptable fuel load for about 40 years.
While controlled burns are the prescription, the political risk is too high in the sense that if a controlled burn breaks containment heads will roll. It doesn't help that even during controlled burns that don't escape, localities will complain about the smoke to their local reps who put the kibash on controlled burns.
- jerlam 4y ago100K burned acres a year though isn't a lot though. The past five years, California has averaged well over 1 million acres burned a year. Even in the decade before that, 250K burned acres would be considered a light year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires#Area_burned_per_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires#A...
- x86_64Ubuntu 4y agoGoodness, the amount of area burned in the past two years is enormous compared to the years prior.