Vic
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Got it. You're reading a great deal more into the statement than I did.
The difference between the Florida, Carolina, and California disasters is that the first two weren't preventable. Controlling wild fires is part of forest management. Clearing brush and dead wood, controlled burns, fire breaks, things like that will mitigate the damage when the fires occur. I'm also assuming that our limited rainfall over the last few years has contributed greatly to the amount fuel available.
The other issue we're having here is that we're conflating Trump being a dick with proper forest management.
California already manages its public forest lands through all those things you mentioned, controlled burns, etc. Where are you getting this idea that they don't?
However, without question, the very worst thing that every happened to the western forests is this misguided notion that wildfires can and should be prevented. Because the biggest reason that our wildfires are so severe now is because most of these forests have not burned for over a century.
There are other issues involved, of course, but overall, you and the President are simply telling lies from ignorance.
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