Perfect timing for Newsom
I'm surprised it wasn't done before this as you really don't want to have to do evacuations of tourists on top of your evacuations of residents.
However, most vacationers/tourists are done as school has restarted in most places (for better or worse). So, this isn't likely to impact voting much.
As a side note: early ballots so far have been high. Lots of Democratic voters are pissed about this recall (it's costing a couple hundred million dollars for no good reason) and seem to be pretty motivated. That's probably good news for Newsom. However, don't take it for granted--go vote, dammit. Because the idiots behind this recall sure will.
The recall election costs $276M. To put that in perspective it's about 0.1% of the state annual budget.
Fires don't care about property lines. A fire that starts in a National Forest will happily burn through an adjacent state forest or community.
Why would you come to that conclusion? He's a politician, I would assume he'd use _political_ pressure to get action.
> Fires don't care about property lines.
Precisely. If the land is being managed in a way that is raising risk and danger to surrounding land, why would you stand idly by and defer to Washington D.C?
> Newsom didn’t admit it, but the outrageous cost to remove a few dead trees from private land is a consequence of California’s Byzantine environmental regulatory patchwork.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/02/25/wildfire...
I'll grant that perhaps I misinterpreted your response as saying, "No". Without additional comment from you in that post (you only replied with a quote), it's hard to know exactly what you're trying to say.
>Fires can start on private and state land and then spread to national forests.
And they can also start on federal land and spread to private/state land. Hence my comment that both federal and state governments are responsible for fire mitigation/prevention.
>Also, more and more Californians are moving away from the coast into rural suburbs due to cost of living.
I am not sure what this has to do with my comment. But, moving inward towards forests may mean that you're residing on state land right next to a federally-owned forest.
>Additionally, due to COVID lockdowns, more people are camping than ever. Fires aren’t started by climate change, they’re started by humans.
Okay? I didn't say anything about climate change or cause of fires. All I said was that both federal and state governments are responsible for their own areas. Each need to be doing a better job; mitigation can be improved across the board to reduce wildfire strength on state and federal lands, cause of fires be damned.
But, for what it's worth, many fires have been triggered by storms during extra dry, hot weather and severe winds caused by climate change.
This is in an extreme fire risk area.
Also, it's quite expense to remove general green waste. High dump fees, long distances to dump, burn piles not allowed, impossible to throw away various types of plants outside house garbage flow.