08-31-2020, 11:51 AM
Back to the original OT topic, I thought this was a good piece by Pro-Publica, generally a fairly left wing platform, but in this case echoing a lot of what GR has stated:
https://www.propublica.org/article/they-...ody-listen
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https://www.propublica.org/article/they-...ody-listen
Quote:Academics believe that between 4.4 million and 11.8 million acres burned each year in prehistoric California. Between 1982 and 1998, California’s agency land managers burned, on average, about 30,000 acres a year. Between 1999 and 2017, that number dropped to an annual 13,000 acres...We live with a deathly backlog. In February 2020, Nature Sustainability published this terrifying conclusion: California would need to burn 20 million acres — an area about the size of Maine — to restabilize in terms of fire.
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