<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 5:55 PM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:34 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The fires are worse than they might be because the woods are denser than <br>
they would be if people had not worked so hard for decades to - guess <br>
what - stop fires!<br>
<br>
Can we hope for a policy shift, to tolerate small fires to keep the tree <br>
population at a more natural density?<br>
<br>
That would mean more rationality than is typical in public policy.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm pretty sure California's foresters know how to manage forests to minimize the risk of uncontrollable fires, that they've communicated that to their superiors, and that that communication has reached the political level, where those suggestions have been deemed not conducive to re-election.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">I believe the long-term bias has been for zero tolerance for fires. And this has lead to a lot of fuel around for fires when they do happen -- as they will. And, yeah, for years I've heard forestry folks say some fire is a healthy part of healthy forest/ecosystem, but the bias against fire is strong here. It's kind of like trying to tell people some housefires lead to healthier communities. So it's easy to see why most people (or most voters or most homeowners living near all that fuel) are tough sells on this issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Dan</span></div></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/</font></a></div></div></div></div></div>