The most deadly fire in California's history is racing across northern California.
A brush fire is also wreaking havoc on southern California.
A BuzzFeed article is titled, "How A Booming Population And Climate Change Made California's Wildfires Worse Than Ever." While dry conditions make fires more likely and people often start them, this misses the big picture.
The California Environmental Protection Agency states that "Prescribed burning is the intentional use of fire to reduce wildfire hazards, clear downed trees, control plant diseases, improve rangeland and wildlife habitats, and restore natural ecosystems."
According to a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection executive summary: "Land and fire management have in many cases increased fire hazard. In some shrub types, fire suppression appears to have shifted the fire regime away from more, smaller fires toward fewer, larger fire."
As of 1995, the private sector owned 8 million acres of undeveloped fire prone land, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The saddest part about these fires in California is that they are self inflicted.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/16/misguided-environmentalism-blame-californias-wildfires/
A brush fire is also wreaking havoc on southern California.
A BuzzFeed article is titled, "How A Booming Population And Climate Change Made California's Wildfires Worse Than Ever." While dry conditions make fires more likely and people often start them, this misses the big picture.
The California Environmental Protection Agency states that "Prescribed burning is the intentional use of fire to reduce wildfire hazards, clear downed trees, control plant diseases, improve rangeland and wildlife habitats, and restore natural ecosystems."
According to a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection executive summary: "Land and fire management have in many cases increased fire hazard. In some shrub types, fire suppression appears to have shifted the fire regime away from more, smaller fires toward fewer, larger fire."
As of 1995, the private sector owned 8 million acres of undeveloped fire prone land, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The saddest part about these fires in California is that they are self inflicted.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/16/misguided-environmentalism-blame-californias-wildfires/
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