“BURNED,” a yearlong investigation from the California Newsroom, reveals how the U.S. Forest Service is struggling to complete the work it knows it must do to keep Californians safe from wildfires. For decades, the agency has developed projects to thin and manage overgrown forests in an effort to reduce wildfire intensity. But those plans routinely stall out, and sometimes are abandoned completely.
Northern California is seeing record rainfall. All the water will help reduce wildfire risks and could help alleviate drought conditions, but it also means a risk for debris flows and evacuations.
look, it is hard to believe there is any climate deniers left in america. let me tell you something. there are. the last place you want someone like that is in a governor s office in california. you all see what s happening. why are fires burning two million acres in california this yearin alone? five million acres have burned, 5.9 in the region. that s bigger than the entire state of new jersey, and it is a big state. the governor and i were just in sacramento for a briefing on the calder fire. last week i saw the destruction and the death caused by hurricane ida in new york, new jersey andin louisiana. folks, extreme weather is here. the climate crisis isn t going away. it s getting worse. we have to deal with it, not deny it. so, california, you have got to