XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.california, sac.politics
XPost: alt.wildland.firefighting
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"Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
"Bret Cahill" wrote in message news:3e196ecb-3054-4d97-8fb9-ae9660e43046@googlegroups.com...
In Northern California no one had to maintain their 30m defensible space for 7 years because there was no rain.
Everything is now grown over with weeds.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/0f317e4c-1d5c-397e-8891-9f3028c6e495/ss_forget-the-wet-winter%3B-the.html
"From the Rockies to the Pacific, the last 16 years have brought an astonishing 11 summers with more than a dozen so-called mega-fires, defined as a single burn engulfing more than 100,000 acres. More to the point of our anxieties, about 120 million of us are living on some 200 million acres considered to be at high risk of burning. We’re living our lives, as will our children and our grandchildren, in a land of flames.
"The problem is partly the result of 80 years of over-aggressive fire suppression, beginning in the early 20th century. Because of the arid nature of the West, when trees die, the primary way they decompose is through fire. Putting out every burn we could get to played well to the “conquer the foe”
aspect of our national character, but it also eliminated the fairly regular, altogether natural “maintenance fires” that kept the forest healthy."
https://blog.suny.edu/2013/08/ask-an-expert-why-are-wildfires-good/
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160722-why-we-should-let-raging-wildfires-burn
https://www.minnpost.com/intelligencer/2011/09/why-forest-fires-are-good-and-amazing
Being torched in 1988 was the best thing to every happen to Yellowstone: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26177963/ns/us_news-environment/t/yellowstone-fires-marked-start-new-era/#.WWKEoIjyuUk
In "deep ecology" circles, pyromania has a purpose: https://goo.gl/kb5f2D
Recommend killing all tree-huggers since they are bent on
killing everyone else with their lack of foresight.
Start by killing everyone who votes Democrat.
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