Starting last year, the governor “fast-tracked” land, now totaling nearly 100,000 acres, for fire management. So far, state-approved groups have completed projects covering less than 1 percent.
If only we could use the CA state government to protect the species known as the white-faced humanus frustratus? I hear their population is declining in some areas of CA which, if I recall, is the criteria by which one places a species on the endangered list. Just saying something no less silly than the bureaucrats in CA. 🤷♂️
Many years ago when we lived in California, our town used to clear out the dry 10-12 foot high brush in our canyon every year. Then they stopped. No one knows why. Then the big fires in Napa and Sonoma happened. And we all thought it would be a good idea for the town to resume clearing the canyon. After all, we were the taxpayers who paid the city employees. So…when these employees suggested giving themselves a big raise, some of us went to city hall and suggested that it would be wise to avoid a big fire that would burn out the people who paid the bills. The result: they voted for the raise and did nothing about the canyon. The next result: my husband and I moved to Tennessee.
Shawn: "The fundamental role of government is to ensure the physical safety of its people".
You are correct. Unfortunately, the role of the *political party* is to ensure the authority, control, and existence of the party - to the detriment of everything else.
In another day and age, politicians would have resigned in embarrassment and shame. The Newsom‘s of this country feel no such thing and go on their merry way without repercussions. Are they so powerful and so bewitched the party that protects them that no consequences other than indignation ever come about?
Continuing to read these types of articles proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that living in CA only proves people are complicit in supporting the regime. Sane people are best to take whatever they can and leave. It was utopia/the garden of Eden but not anymore.
Good stuff to keep front and center. Thank you! What surprises me most is how the state residents pay no heed to this situation when the day is almost here that none of them will be able to purchase insurance for fire loss. Same as for all their other problems: Is it Newsom who is responsible or is it the voters who elected him. We put all the focus on the idiot when the focus should be put on the idiots who did the electing.
You are doing God’s work, Christopher. Keep it up.
Without your support this reporting wouldn't be possible. Thank you!
Newsom broke a promise? Must be a day ending in Y.
For comparison, the process takes a few months in Florida. Here's the details:
Firewise USA Recognition (community wildfire preparedness program):
1. Form a committee, complete a risk assessment, create an action plan, and perform risk-reduction work (e.g., defensible space).
2. Submit application via the national Firewise portal; Florida Forest Service reviews as state liaison.
Annual renewal required for ongoing recognition.
Timeline: Variable; planning and implementation can take months, with approval relatively quick once criteria are met.
Florida once again proving that California's decline is a policy choice.
If only we could use the CA state government to protect the species known as the white-faced humanus frustratus? I hear their population is declining in some areas of CA which, if I recall, is the criteria by which one places a species on the endangered list. Just saying something no less silly than the bureaucrats in CA. 🤷♂️
This is what happens when protecting trees takes precedence over protecting lives as a public policy
Good fire policy protects forests too. California's bureaucracy is protecting itself. To move faster, fewer steps and fewer people are needed.
Are these legit groups that get the contracts, or part of the climate equity justice non profit blob?
DJT stood face to face with Newsome in 2019, in a Patch of California redwood, and Trump told him what he needed to do to protect his state.
You think he’d listen. NOOOO……….
Like all liberal leaning leftists TDS!!!!
Keep pulling that Democrat lever Californians.
Many years ago when we lived in California, our town used to clear out the dry 10-12 foot high brush in our canyon every year. Then they stopped. No one knows why. Then the big fires in Napa and Sonoma happened. And we all thought it would be a good idea for the town to resume clearing the canyon. After all, we were the taxpayers who paid the city employees. So…when these employees suggested giving themselves a big raise, some of us went to city hall and suggested that it would be wise to avoid a big fire that would burn out the people who paid the bills. The result: they voted for the raise and did nothing about the canyon. The next result: my husband and I moved to Tennessee.
Shawn: "The fundamental role of government is to ensure the physical safety of its people".
You are correct. Unfortunately, the role of the *political party* is to ensure the authority, control, and existence of the party - to the detriment of everything else.
In another day and age, politicians would have resigned in embarrassment and shame. The Newsom‘s of this country feel no such thing and go on their merry way without repercussions. Are they so powerful and so bewitched the party that protects them that no consequences other than indignation ever come about?
Newsom is an ass.
It's going to take San Fran and Scaramento to burn down to change things in CA.
I would be more shocked if lil’ gavin …kept a ‘promise’. 🙏📿
Continuing to read these types of articles proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that living in CA only proves people are complicit in supporting the regime. Sane people are best to take whatever they can and leave. It was utopia/the garden of Eden but not anymore.
Good stuff to keep front and center. Thank you! What surprises me most is how the state residents pay no heed to this situation when the day is almost here that none of them will be able to purchase insurance for fire loss. Same as for all their other problems: Is it Newsom who is responsible or is it the voters who elected him. We put all the focus on the idiot when the focus should be put on the idiots who did the electing.