FredricRice
San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders
It's not our forests in California that are the wildfire problem, it's our desert chaparral that burns and sweeps in to forested areas, most of the time, adversely impacted by the warming climate and the desiccation of our soils, something we're seeing across the entire American Southwest -- even "Red States" -- as water sources dry up and disappear and rainfall increases across shorter periods of time.That’s a ridiculous thing to say. Apart from all the debunked nonsense of controlled burning and stripping out the forest really making all that much difference (and I’m an fire fighter in Australia where we have real fires!), when did “caring about having clean air to breathe” become political anyway. It was a so called right wing president that created the EPA for gods sake.
Please engage your brain before spouting trump rally nonsense…
Those old-timers like me remember a time when our nation's air quality was so bad that we had "smog days" in various places across the country, days when schools had to close and it was recommended that children and old timers stay indoors and not exercise much. Playing outside was like smoking a pack of tobacco products, and old timers like me remember.
California State's medical bills for citizens hospitalized or otherwise treated for smog inhalation used to be around the top in any State, other than parts of Texas and a few places on the East Coast where topology did not clear the air or sweep the smog Westward or out to sea. Since we instigated serious progressive air quality rules, we have cleaned up our air and aggregate pollutant medical bills declined in a plot that one could match against the quality of our air.