If you are blaming conservation for California’s big wildfires, you are either pushing an agenda, or you are showing your own ignorance, or both.
Many if not most conservationists would rather see something closer to a natural fire regime with frequent small fires keeping that keep the forest floor clear in order to prevent hot, massive fires that destroy big trees and everything else in their path and increase likelyhood and severity of mudslides.
They haven’t gotten their way.
Instead, developers have pushed development deeper into hazardous terrain reaping profits while putting people at risk. Instead, forest product companies insist that the solution is to log out the big trees in order to extend the public subsidy of their profits, mudslides be dammned.
California burns, always has, always will. California fires lead to California mudslides. There really is no getting around that. But managing forests for short-term private profit has made both fires and mudslides worse in terms of safety and cost.
As for private firebreaks, and clearing ditches. Some measures are like blowing up the levy on the opposite side of the river from your home, they reduce risk for some by guaranteeing harm for others. Given that California’s water cycle involves flood and draught, clearing a ditch because it hasn’t had water running though it for years isn’t a very smart thing to do. For one thing, it may well have sub-surface and seasonal surface water, and for another, that vegetation will help keep it from getting ripped apart when a 10 or 50y flood comes ripping through it.
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