Newsom's $1B wildfire plan favors Sierra Nevada logging over homeowners
Scientists contend that hot, dry, windy conditions fuel the state's most deadly and destructive blazes — not overgrown forests
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Newsom's wildfire plan shortchanges homeowners, critics say
SAN DIEGO — Robert Garant proudly showed off a collection of chain saws he’s used to maintain the nearly 2 acres he and his wife, Gladys, have lived on for 47 years in San Diego County’s bucolic mountain hamlet of Julian. The retired school bus driver said pruning the oak trees and dense shrubbery around their home isn’t just an aesthetic endeavor. Maintaining what’s commonly known as defensible space, he explained, can be a matter of life and death. “We actually saved our house by clearing that whole perimeter,” said Garant, recalling the ferocious Cedar fire in 2003 that bu...
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