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Fluffy Bunny's avatar

I don't know if someone's already said this but thank you.

"I can’t say for sure that California does literally nothing to “block the management of their lands”. But I can say that the land in California is 47.7% federally owned."

A lot of the must devastating fires in California started on USFS land. There's nothing California can do about management of that land. Even if they wanted to spend billions of dollars to rake the forest they don't have the authority to.

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Crip Dyke's avatar

That was my understanding, but this is an area of law I'm not up on.

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Rev. Travis 🍄's avatar

My partner, the marine biologist/climate scientist, is also a climate science educator and her curriculum is moving into language like "unnatural disasters." The wordage "Natural disaster" gives people the impression that these phenomena are normal and just part of the flow of nature.

To quote my wife's recent newsletter entry for the UC Environmental Stewards Program: "...these unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission (that is, something humans could have done, but did not do) or commission (that is, something that humans did that contributed to the situation). Not every disaster is an unnatural disaster, but growing numbers of extreme weather events are." (Her blog post, if you'd like to read the whole thing: https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=60785 )

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Rev. Travis 🍄's avatar

Also wife and partner are interchangeable for her. Excuse me 😂

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Bruce's avatar

I'm surprised he didn't echo fat nixon's incessant whinging about how they dare let any water flow to the sea in California.

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Barbara Cox's avatar

Thank you for so clearly lining out the forest management issues in California- federal management has been really problematic. This is compounded by the fact that California gives more money to the federal government coffers than it receives back in federal support across all sectors. (Currently 13%).

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Leah Abram's avatar

> This is compounded by the fact that California gives more money to the federal government coffers than it receives back in federal support across all sectors.

Also applies to New York State (until the COVID-19 Pandemic started in 2020): https://rockinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Balance-of-Payments-Federal-2023.pdf

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Crip Dyke's avatar

Glad to help!

Yeah, CA is getting ripped off even more when you consider that a large amount of the money spent by the feds is borrowed. So in addition to what you're not getting back, you're also getting stuck with a bill for future debt.

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Rev. Travis 🍄's avatar

*Cries in Californian*

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