Re:PG&E-friendly wildfire bill being prepared by lawmakers i...
by briffle on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @01:57AM
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apparently, you haven't been in oregon in a while.. We had hundreds of thousands of acres burn this summer..
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Re:PG&E-friendly wildfire bill being prepared by lawmakers i...
by yellowapple on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:50AM
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Indeed. Wildfires aren't really about drought so much as they're about abundant kindling (e.g. smaller trees not already burnt). Wildfires are essential to keeping forests healthy, and by trying to stop them entirely we've only made them more frequent and destructive.