[env-trinity] The Mercury News: The reason that California wildfires are worse than ever

[kristi bevard]

My two cents.

Many opinions are being expressed about fires, responders and land use
planning in California.

Many contributing factors to fires in California exist. It makes no sense
to chastise others for choosing to live near the forest. 1. As it turns
out, some of the most devastating fires in Trinity were caused by
government sponsored agencies burning meadows during a dry, windy day.
2. If some folks remember the Santa Rosa fire, all of the incinerated homes
(with the exception of a few wineries) were in subdivision designed
neighborhoods, not wildland fire hazard areas.
3. We, who pay insurance, pay for all catastrophes, including disasters
caused by flooding, tornadoes and other maladies. For those of us who live
in the forest, our insurance is extremely limited.
4.  There are many reasons why our lands are burning;
A) little or no weed control from asphalt shoulder to 12 ft inland on both
sides of all roads
B) people who improperly chain up when pulling a trailer
C) people who toss lit cigarettes out of their windows, into dry grass
D) transients who have unattended, out of season fires to keep warm
E) lightening strikes
F) people driving after their tire has shredded and their rim throws flames
into dry grass which was never cut by the state, county or fed.

The list above are some reasons we are on fire. Stop making generalized
judgements about people who live in the country or the forest. Living here
doesn't cause fires.

Trust me when I say; we pay for the privilege in spades.

Kristi A Bevard
Former TAMWG member
Trinity County Resident

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018, 18:26 Denise Boggs <denise at conservationcongress-ca.org>
wrote:

> The National Forests aren’t the problem. It’s people living in areas they
> shouldn’t be. Interesting stats on CA and the wildfires throughout the
> state over time. Some of these areas have burned multiple times and people
> keep rebuilding in the same place. The state’s landscape is prone to fires
> and they are going burn regardless. Climate change only makes it worse.
>
> “The Carr Fire burning in Shasta County was started by a single spark from
> a towed trailer on a road in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. It then
> quickly raced into high-end new residential subdivisions such as Lake
> Redding Estates, where it destroyed 65 upscale homes.”
>
> *The reason that California wildfires are worse than ever*
> The Mercury News
>
> As California grows, people are moving into the rural edges of cities
> where we weren't before -- creating an "expanding bull’s eye’ effect" of
> higher wildfire risk, according to a new study by geographer Stephen M.
> Strader of Villanova University. Read the full story
> <https://apple.news/AO3JyVOhZQvS4W7C_ou3raQ>
> Denise Boggs
> Www.conservationcongress-ca.org
>
> "Some of them were angry at the way the Earth was abused; By the men who
> learned how to forge her beauty into power; And they struggled to protect
> her from them, only to be confused; By the magnitude of the fury in the
> final hour."
> 'Before the Deluge' Jackson Browne
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