It's the grass that makes CA a tinderbox more than anything else by a longshot. It grows big during the winter, then all of it dies or goes dormant during the summer. One match or spark cascades bigtime.
Grass fires need to happen, but of some of the large forest fires completely fucked certain areas, essentially permanently changing the biome. There are several places that were oak forests not too long ago that are now dense with small non-oak brush 10 years after burning.
Exactly the same scenario in New South Wales, Australia in 2019. Decades of neglect by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, record full loads, large fires. Surprise! "Climate Change" is alleged as the cause.
It isn't like the forests where those fires occur have been off limits to active management for decades, resulting in fuel loads off the charts.
CA environmental policy is responsible for the wild fires, not warming that only exists in the doctored temperatures records of NOAA.
Or that they're full of trees that produce a flammable oil because they spread via burning.
It's the grass that makes CA a tinderbox more than anything else by a longshot. It grows big during the winter, then all of it dies or goes dormant during the summer. One match or spark cascades bigtime.
Grass fires need to happen, but of some of the large forest fires completely fucked certain areas, essentially permanently changing the biome. There are several places that were oak forests not too long ago that are now dense with small non-oak brush 10 years after burning.
I've been saying for years we need to just unleash thousands of goats in this state and then we can have year round goat hunting.
Exactly the same scenario in New South Wales, Australia in 2019. Decades of neglect by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, record full loads, large fires. Surprise! "Climate Change" is alleged as the cause.