Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable?
by AlotOfReading on Friday January 17, 2025 @06:54PM
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The national park service does controlled burns in Yosemite and has for a couple decades at this point. You can argue they don't do enough but they're limited by bureaucracy, safe conditions, and manpower rather than willingness.
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National parks are a small percentage of California’s land area. Does the state do controlled burns outside of the national parks? If not, national parks doing controlled burns do not do very much.
Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable?
by AlotOfReading on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @05:02PM
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Yes they do. It's a completely different set of government agencies with different policies though.
Newsweek suggests that they do not do enough of it:
https://www.newsweek.com/controlled-burns-california-forest-...
That article focuses on the federal side, but this article by Ars Technica appears to include the state side:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/why-isnt-california-...