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As far as i can tell, california forest management essentially ended up suppressing "good fires", and didn't do enough of controlled burns, which ended up accum
by tehlike 3y ago
As far as i can tell, california forest management essentially ended up suppressing "good fires", and didn't do enough of controlled burns, which ended up accumulating a lot of fuel to cause large fires.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoIt's probably a lot more complicated than that. For one thing, California is a place that imported eucalyptus. This is a fire hazard. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37442671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37442671
- tehlike 3y agoIf eucalyptus is now fact of the state, what needs to be done to reduce its impact?
- wbl 3y agoI find chainsaws work fine
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoCalifornia could look to, I don’t know. Australia!? Instead of Americans again pretending that any problem they face is uniquely theirs.
- _DeadFred_ 3y agoSanta Cruz had huge wildfires when I was a kid in the 80s (it snowed ash even). The fire experts were pretty explicite that if the same policies were kept in place (preventing burn off) we would have those same fires 40 years later. It's 40 years later I wonder how that turned out.
- hatthew 3y agoHow it turned out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZU_Lightning_Complex_fires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZU_Lightning_Complex_fires
- etrautmann 3y agoThat’s one piece of a larger picture, which includes climate change, snowpack, severe weather events, PG&E, etc.