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Back to the original OT topic, I thought this was a good piece by Pro-Publica, generally a fairly left wing platform, but in this case echoing a lot of what GR has stated:

https://www.propublica.org/article/they-...ody-listen

Academics believe that between 4.4 million and 11.8 million acres burned each year in prehistoric California. Between 1982 and 1998, California’s agency land managers burned, on average, about 30,000 acres a year. Between 1999 and 2017, that number dropped to an annual 13,000 acres...We live with a deathly backlog. In February 2020, Nature Sustainability published this terrifying conclusion: California would need to burn 20 million acres — an area about the size of Maine — to restabilize in terms of fire.

The ProPublica piece draws its main theses from the same article I posted earlier
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0451-7

[fullmetal]

Back to the original OT topic, I thought this was a good piece by Pro-Publica, generally a fairly left wing platform, but in this case echoing a lot of what GR has stated:

https://www.propublica.org/article/they-...ody-listen

Academics believe that between 4.4 million and 11.8 million acres burned each year in prehistoric California. Between 1982 and 1998, California’s agency land managers burned, on average, about 30,000 acres a year. Between 1999 and 2017, that number dropped to an annual 13,000 acres...We live with a deathly backlog. In February 2020, Nature Sustainability published this terrifying conclusion: California would need to burn 20 million acres — an area about the size of Maine — to restabilize in terms of fire.

The ProPublica piece draws its main theses from the same article I posted earlier
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0451-7