Originally Posted by E365
Originally Posted by irv
I don't know California and their issues at all but do they no longer trim/remove trees that are encroaching on power lines? Common sense to me but then again, we are talking about California.
Seriously? Of course they do.
Currently 4,500 employed as tree trimmers, over 1,200 km of lines cleared this year so far and about 1.4 million trees removed / trimmed annually. Links to my sources in our other thread about this. It's a huge state with >133,000 sq. km of forest.
Yes, seriously.
Based on what I know about California and their crazy environmental laws/rules and their au naturel attitude towards any type of forest management/alterations, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
Wasn't that, in large part, the cause of the last huge fire you's had? Campfire? I know many jumped on the Global warming/climate change excuse/hoax but that had nothing to do with it despite what the alarmists try to claim.
The facts are clear: California's deadliest year of wildfires has been decades in the making, with overlapping environmental rules, both state and federal, making fuel load reductions in forests and coastal chaparral nearly impossible, while hostility towards commercial timber harvesting has allowed a massive build up in tree density and brush with a concurrent reduction of access roads and firebreaks.