<div dir="ltr">It is refreshing to see the real cause and solution proposed on this list instead of the default "Errr climate change."  Whether anyone in government learns from what experts have actually proposed as policy is an entirely different story.  <div><br></div><div>In any case, I hope all affected are staying safe out there!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:33 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><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>
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Can we hope for a policy shift, to tolerate small fires to keep the tree <br>
population at a more natural density?<br>
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That would mean more rationality than is typical in public policy.<br>
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*\\* Anton Sherwood *\\* <a href="http://www.bendwavy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.bendwavy.org</a><br>
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