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

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You have my vote, Kristi...  It is time for common sense, not Government BS...

 

 

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Redding, CA

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: kristi bevard <kbevard at gmail.com>
To: Denise Boggs <denise at conservationcongress-ca.org>
Cc: env-trinity <env-trinity at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us>
Sent: Mon, Aug 6, 2018 8:36 pm
Subject: Re: [env-trinity] The Mercury News: The reason that California wildfires are worse than ever



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

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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