CA lawmakers suddenly agree with Trump | Eastern North Carolina Now

Zerohedge.com has the following:

"California lawmakers are apparently just now discovering that controlled burns to prevent future wildfires might be the new prescriptionas decades-old policies of progressive-driven 'conservation' and reactive fire suppression have failed.

Democratic state lawmakers are suddenly in agreement with former President Trump who said in August 2020 that the state needs "to clean its forest floors more than anything else." 

At a rally in Pennsylvania last August, Trump told supporters: 

"I see again the forest fires are starting. They're starting again in California. I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests — there are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they're like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up."

And now, Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, praised a new $20 million controlled burn pilot program that won legislative approval and could soon be signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, according to local Napa County news East County Today.  

"If we want to reduce the frequency and destructiveness of wildfires, we must remove combustible fuels from our tinder-dry forests and woodlands,"Sen. Dodd said.

"Prescribed burning is a time-tested solution to this worsening problem. I am thrilled to see this come to fruition and thank my legislative colleagues for supporting this worthwhile investment."

By starting controlled fires, forest managers can eliminate fuels, such as thickets, brush, branches, and young trees that supercharge fast-moving blazes. This allows older trees to survive and keeps forest floors free and clear of fuels for the next season of wildfires. 

Decades of progressive (and reactive) policies (not global warming) have made California's woodlands overgrown, and when hot temperatures and drought arrive, the forests are tinder boxes ready to ignite. 

Today's reactive wildfire response to deploy thousands of firefighters, helicopters, planes, drones, bulldozers, and firetrucks to suppress fires is a failed policy, and lawmakers are quickly learning the hard way with more than three million acres burned in the state this fire season, displacing thousands of households and pushing first responders onto the brink of exhaustion. 

President Biden visited California on Monday and said: "These fires are blinking code red for our nation." He promoted two spending bills in Congress that would fund forest management and more resilient infrastructure. 

So Trump was right when he criticized California for mismanaging its wildfire management program that has been the culprit of these mega-fires. Meanwhile, liberal media continues to toe the establishment line that climate change is at fault, not just bad policymaking.

As H.Sterling Burnett recently noted,in late July, President Joe Biden held a virtual joint planning meeting and press conference with the governors of various Western states to discuss how to handle 2021’s wildfire season.

Every leader blamed catastrophic human climate change for the severity of recent wildfire seasons.

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