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Old 08-10-2021, 2:50pm   #21
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For feck’s sake…

For those that think this is a California problem…

The US Forest Service’s “10 AM policy” (and those that came after) kicked off almost 100 years of mismanagement. Nixon signed NEPA into law which now has been misused by environmentalists.

The entire west is now turning the corner and trying to manage forests the proper way (thinning, controlled burns, etc.) but it takes time to undue a century’s worth of damage.

Learn about the policies that brought us here and you’ll understand that this all started way before California turned blue or any litigation started by environmentalists. You have to go back 100 years to get to the start of the problem. And not just in California.
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Another thing Trump was right about. Yes, you've got to 'rake the forest.' Texas also has known severe drought, and yes, we have a wildfire now and again, but NOTHING like what we see EVERY year in California.
Most neighborhoods in CO have figured it out. Zero branches below 10 feet in forested areas. Let any fire burn across the ground, but remove any laddering material.
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California spends over 20 billion each year supporting illegal immigrants.

They spend less than 1 billion on Forest fire prevention.
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Firefighters battling the Dixie Fire have also been facing a second enemy: a serial arsonist who went on a spree of setting fires in July and August — and who sought to trap fire crews with his fires, according to agents from the U.S. Forest Service. They allege former college professor Gary Maynard is the culprit, citing their tracking of his movements and other evidence.


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Just hang that dickwad if it's true. I'm not big on NPR doing any real journalism at this point, but if this is good, they should just beat this jackass relentlessly.

Anyone who has been through a fire emergency understands the sheer terror of losing all physical memories of their past, let alone family, friends and pets.

I can't understand, if true, what possesses someone to to this.

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Justice would be throwing him into the middle of his own fire with no way out.
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I can't understand, if true, what possesses someone to to this.

There are a lot of mentally ill people in the world. A lot more than you might think.

I live across the street from a public park. Parks seem to be magnets for all kinds of shenanigans - homeless people, kids drinking and doing drugs, losers having sex, public urination, etc.




But it's also a magnet for nutcases. Like the guy who comes to the park to worship this one particular tree:



Or the old hag who drives her car to the park, stares off into space for a while, and then gets out and walks around in circles for 20 minutes or so before getting back into her car and taking a nap.

And then there are the people - mostly Chinese - who spend a large chunk of their day walking the same route over and over and over again. OK, I get it, you want exercise - but Jesus H. Tapdancin' Christ, don't you ever get bored walking the same route 4 or 5 times a day, every day?
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But it's also a magnet for nutcases. Like the guy who comes to the park to worship this one particular tree:

Watching him take his shoes off at the end, I think he is grounding.

https://www.healthline.com/health/grounding
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California spends over 20 billion each year supporting illegal immigrants.

They spend less than 1 billion on Forest fire prevention.



How do you prevent nut jobs from lighting the forest? Most of these fires are caused by people.
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How do you prevent nut jobs from lighting the forest? Most of these fires are caused by people.
Choot them.
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Choot them.



So will have guards surrounding every forest and National parks 24/7. Why didn't i think of that?
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Watching him take his shoes off at the end, I think he is grounding.

https://www.healthline.com/health/grounding
Maybe... But why that one specific tree out of the dozens of trees in the park?

I should mention that this guy is not the only one who worships that particular tree. A few years ago there was a different guy who used to come to that same tree and do similar shit like take his shirt off and rub his back against the tree like Baloo the bear. He did that for a couple of years but then he moved away and I never saw him again. Then maybe a year ago this new guy showed up.
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Here’s the thing. I believe many of the fires are terrorism. Setting fires is an almost perfect tactic. Low risk, low skill, low cost, high impact both economically and in terms of publicity.

Yet nobody is discussing it.
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Just hang that dickwad if it's true. I'm not big on NPR doing any real journalism at this point, but if this is good, they should just beat this jackass relentlessly.
Take your pick on sources.

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I don’t trust NPR for political reporting or insight, though. No way.
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I don’t trust NPR for political reporting or insight, though. No way.
Again, choot him. Discourages others that might follow in his footsteps.
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BTW, I need to go read some stuff. Does he have a reason, or is just an idiot?
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Dude is a wingnut.

https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/08/11...he-dixie-fire/
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Just specifically WHAT is SO different NOW from say ~20 years ago with water management?? the weather/climate changed THAT much??

I doubt it......I read stories about some river near SF that they are pissing the water flow into the ocean to save a snail darter fish/minnow?? they STILL doing that crap?? and how many other places are the commies doing the same thing out there?? abandoned common cents......

Yeh, the land is more vertical than horizontal out there, but still, why the dryness and fire hazard increases???

*Sacramento River

*Smelt
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BTW, I need to go read some stuff. Does he have a reason, or is just an idiot?
Crazy guy.

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