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Recent Pics from Colorado Springs
WHY do people KEEP BUILDING IN THE WORST POSSIBLE PLACES?!? Look at that slope and those fuels! That's no place to put a road, much less a home, much less a whole subdivision! Here's hoping there aren't a thousand lawsuits as soon as the ashes cool.
WHY do people KEEP BUILDING IN THE WORST POSSIBLE PLACES?!? Look at that slope and those fuels! That's no place to put a road, much less a home, much less a whole subdivision!
Government restriction??? Not getting on your case Bud, but they are the ones that allow this kinda nonsense building to take place. More homes, more tax dollars. Talk to any fire marshal about what they think of these sub-divisions with 10foot setbacks. It's their biggest worry about what a fire would do to those places. Heck in a county just north of Seattle they've gone to the county commissioners with their concerns, and it just falls on deaf ears. OK, sorry enough ranting.
It takes a disaster before folks take such things into consideration. There was a subdivision in N. AZ that didn't want any thinning done in or around it. Then the Rodeo Chensomething fire hit. Their area didn't burn, which was strange because it was the most likely to. However, afterwards they took thinning to heart and quit fighting it.
I'll bet those neighborhoods had covenants to restrict cutting trees. Look at how close the trees are to the houses!
People move to forested areas from the flatlands--Phoenix in the Arizona case, and they don't want any trees cut. They like trees in strange places. My neighbor had one growing out of the center of his house.
Decks were built around trees.
You can only do so much to try to convince people, but they sometimes come around after a big fire. From the size and locations shown in the photos, I think there must have been one heck of a view.
Our county finally quit letting folks build permanent houses in the flood plain.
Our county finally quit letting folks build permanent houses in the flood plain.
Decks were built around trees.
Government restriction??? Not getting on your case Bud, but they are the ones that allow this kinda nonsense building to take place. More homes, more tax dollars. Talk to any fire marshal about what they think of these sub-divisions with 10foot setbacks. It's their biggest worry about what a fire would do to those places. Heck in a county just north of Seattle they've gone to the county commissioners with their concerns, and it just falls on deaf ears. OK, sorry enough ranting.
does seem that around here a few people are getting the idea about fuel reduction, most of my logging albeit gypo... is thinning and danger tree removal. people are starting to see that that underbrush is awfully dense, but if they could just get their mower in their... maybe when a fire does hit it won't be so bad. Too bad more of em don't wake up and smell the charcoal
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