'Radical environmentalists' to blame for deadly California wildfire

[easyt65]

When flying for the USAF a small little creek was found running in between our 2 Ops Center Buildings. They were planning on making that area a parking lot...but they found several rare endangered frogs.

Construction was halted, the area was named a protected area, and the Govt decided to 'protect the frogs and the stream' by putting up pillars and barricades and steps leading to the stream, etc....

2 weeks later the stream was polluted and all the frogs were dead because of all the cement and other crap the govt had moved in to build the pillars, make the steps, etc...


'Don't worry, little endangered rare frogs - We're from the govt, and we're here to help!'

Bwuhahahaha........

 

[candycorn]

Drought conditions are to blame it seems.

 

[badger2]

Did the Sacramento Bee publish the list of 25 sites? If not, why not?

 

[eagle1462010]

‘The president’s right’: Interior chief pushes thinning forests to cut fire risk

Some environmental groups have acknowledged that forests have grown too thick and should be managed with occasional cutting as well as planned or “prescribed” burns when fire risks are low. Gov. Jerry Brown has put more than $90 million of additional forest-management funds into the fiscal 2019 budget, and groups such as the Public Policy Institute of California and the Little Hoover Commission, the state’s in-house think tank, have called for more aggressive forest management.

But environmentalists fear the Trump administration is using the horrific 2018 fire season as a way to clear-cut treasured forests.

“They’re using the opportunity of fires ... to advance some backward-looking approaches to the environment,” said Kathryn Phillips, director of Sierra Club California, in an interview.

Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis at Pomona College, said forest management “as Ryan Zinke and others describe it is an indiscriminate cutting.”

He and others added that Zinke’s argument misses the point about the Carr Fire and some of the other destructive blazes that have hit California this year: They started in shrublands, not thick forests.

Phillips said the Trump administration also is ignoring the root cause of the rash of wildfires this year: climate change, which has stretched out the fire season.

 

[theHawk]

Drought conditions are to blame it seems.

California is always in a drought, and they have fires all the time.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Here’s a link that suggests enviro extremism is to blame by merely pointing out how the ecosystem works. And they even have diversity in their name so left wingers must obey...
Fire and Forest Management

 

[eagle1462010]

California Will Spend $1 Billion on Wildfire Prevention, Give Some Relief to Utility Companies

“This new law is the most comprehensive wildfire prevention and safety package the state has passed in decades,” state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, the bill’s co-author.

The new law links together two distinct challenges for changing the trajectory of California’s fire future: controlled growth of fire-prone vegetation and reduced financial exposure for utility companies. In a less combustible year, opposition to either could have doomed the effort. But the topic was hard to ignore during a summer marked by a number of deadly blazes and weeks of wildfire smoke choking the skies above Sacramento.

Lawmakers from the state’s most threatened regions — rural foothills with forests overgrown from decades of fire suppression, and coastal communities with kindlinglike chaparral — were adamant about expanding efforts to remove fire fuels. They pushed for $1 billion in funding, paid over five years from proceeds of California’s cap-and-trade climate program, so that government and landowners alike had the money needed to carry out the work.

Cal Fire officials will oversee those dollars, generally divvied into two categories: $165 million a year for fire prevention grants to landowners and for community prevention efforts, and another $35 million to continue Cal Fire’s year-round prescribed burns, research and monitoring.



Takes a lot of people dying for the leaders there to get their heads out of their asses.