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Since California's stopped using state funding to clear underbrush and prevent forest fires...
FAR more carbon is sequestered in unburnt forests than in wildfire zones.
~60% of California forests are federally managed. Nearly all California forest fires were on federally managed land in 2020.
https://www.politico.com/news/... [politico.com]
And of course it's easy as pie to figure out where the initial spark was days after a wildfire rolls through and reduces everything to ash...
Actually, it's not all that hard to tell when I fire is started by lightening or humans. It's called forensic science. Read about it sometime.
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Hows about forest management? (Score:4, Informative)
Since California's stopped using state funding to clear underbrush and prevent forest fires...
FAR more carbon is sequestered in unburnt forests than in wildfire zones.
Re: (Score:2)
~60% of California forests are federally managed. Nearly all California forest fires were on federally managed land in 2020.
https://www.politico.com/news/... [politico.com]
Re: (Score:2)
And of course it's easy as pie to figure out where the initial spark was days after a wildfire rolls through and reduces everything to ash...
Re:Hows about forest management? (Score:2)
And of course it's easy as pie to figure out where the initial spark was days after a wildfire rolls through and reduces everything to ash...
Actually, it's not all that hard to tell when I fire is started by lightening or humans. It's called forensic science. Read about it sometime.