The forests did just fine for millions and millions of years before people thought they had to manage them.
In this area, there are fire roads in all directions. (I ride my mountain bike there) I think steel bullets are also banned.
In California 90% of all wildfires are man caused. If California population went from 20 million to 40 million because the Democrats have the welcome mat out at the border, simple math says there will be more wildfires. For the rest of America it's mother nature usually lightning strikes that causes wildfires. Before Europeans arrived to America to introduce the indigenous native Americans to horses, cows to steal and eat and toilet paper, the indians would also start wildfires on purpose. Now lets not be indoctrinated to cultural-marxism revisionist history. The Indigenous American indians weren't the best stewards of the land. When they saw a nut in a tree they wanted to eat, they chopped down the tree. Before Europeans introduced the horse to the plains indians, the indians would set the plains on fire forcing thousands of buffalo to flee and fall to their deaths when they came to a high cliff. And talk about smog in the Los Angeles basin, both English and Spanish explorers mentioned how freaking smokey and smoggy the L.A. basin was with all of the indian campfires burning 24/7.
Politically correct Steel bullets are banned on all federal lands, BLM land and USFS land. The federal government isn't as stupid as California's state legislature. But one of the last acts of the Obama administration was to ban lead bullets on all federal land and only politically correct steel bullets could be used. One of the first things President Trump did when he became President was to revoke Obama's ban on lead bullets. Remember when the Obama administration wanted American soldiers and Marines use only green bullets that were so politically correct and just didn't kill the way a real bullet should.
You seem to be confused between having a normal fire and what we get now, on a regular basis, thanks to Leftist policy, regulations, and diversion from what we should be doing.
It's a SIMPLE solution, take all the Illegals and Drug addicts and force them to work in the California forests trimming trees and underbrush or GO TO JAIL.
They would just come across a cartel marijuana plantation in California's foothills and mountains and start smoking the weed and getting high and lazy and would demand fast food for the munchies.
If we had let the James Watt Republican rightists run California unabated over the past 50 years, there would probably be about 10 redwood trees left in the state and the rest of them would be chopped up and made into decks pasted onto those 50,000 crappy condos that ruined the once beautiful Orange County Coast. Then they would have open pit mining in Yosemite and Sequoia National parks. Your suggestion that Republican rule would save California is a hollow bunch of crapola. The only thing they were into whenever they got in power was letting oil companies drill off shore in Santa Barbara, (I still remember the kerosine cans in Isla Vista to get the tar off your feet in those once pristine beaches) selling out as much timberland to Wayerhouser to let them clear cut it leaving environmental disaster in their wake, and letting any huge mining conglomerate poison the ground water with cyanide or god know what. Leftist, schmeftist....
The S-64 Skycrane which is basically the Vietnam War era CH-54. Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane / CH-54 Tarhe Nothing else looks like it. Sharply cut-out fuselage is for carrying encapsuled cargo; long rear "legs" to landing gear. A packaged load-lifter, the Skycrane program included a "universal military pod" for cargo or troops and a removable winch system capable of lifting 6800kg. A few used in civil works, including lifting powerline pylons and delivering bulldozers to isolated sites. Among other signs of lifting power, an unloaded CH-54 has reached an altitude of 3353m. Used extensively in Vietnam to move heavy equipment, armored vehicles, and to retrieve crashed airplanes. While the gear is fixed, it is partially retractable, allowing the pilot to settle over, and pick up, the cargo pod. http://www.aviastar.org/recognition/s-64.html
"Millions of years" ago they didn't have dumbasses driving around with burning trash dumping all over the road.
Its a very distinctive aircraft. Im looking for a Bronco sighting. They fly out of Hemet so I'd expect they are getting some action today. No aircraft visible in my neck of the woods, and no headers visible. I have line of sight from Pasadena to beaumont.
But I know where all of these fires are burning today and when nobody lived in those areas back when California wasn't overpopulated with 40 million people. They really should rename the Sandalwood Fire in Riverside County the Mexican Garbage Truck Fire.
How about all the mexican gardner-mobiles? The crappy little trucks with the trailer chains dragging/sparking along the road doing 40 mph?
There are days here when you walk outside and just know. Step on a stick and it snaps. Grass crunches underfoot. It’s hot, and the relative humidity is down in the single digits. If there’s a fire that day, Cal Fire battalion chief Justin McGough says, “You just know it’s going to burn very, very well.” But today is not that day, as I step one winter morning onto Cal Fire’s Hemet-Ryan Air Attack Base in Hemet, California. To the east, Mount San Jacinto is topped with fresh snow, and ample rainfall has relieved most of the state’s drought. Here at Hemet-Ryan, which remains open year-round, firefighting aircraft out on the ramp mark time quietly in the sun. Cal Fire—the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection—is a state agency responsible for fire control across 31 million acres of timberland, brush, and urban forest. With 50 aircraft at 23 bases around the state, it has the largest firefighting air force in the world. Hemet-Ryan hosts a little of everything in Cal Fire’s standard contingent: a Bell UH-1H Super Huey helicopter, two Grumman S-2T tankers, and a North American Aviation OV-10A tactical observation aircraft. Crews at Hemet dispatch to fires from the San Bernardino mountains, near Los Angeles, all the way south to the Mexican border... OV-10 Bronco fighting wildfires OV-10 Bronco fighting commie gooks over Vietnam and Iraqis during Desert Storm As an observation and counterinsurgency aircraft, the North American OV-10A Bronco flew from Vietnam through Desert Storm. Cal Fire acquired 15 of the veterans in 1993 and converted them for firefighting command and control. With a pilot up front and the Air Tactical Group Supervisor—a Cal Fire battalion chief—in the second seat, the OV-10 is an airborne air traffic control center. Read more at https://www.airspacemag.com/airspacemag/wildfire-wars-180972602/#sVTkmSBgwTWMD8I3.99
San Diego County says that 70% of the wildfires in the county were started by illegal aliens in the hills who started a campfire that got out of control while making there way to a sanctuary city. Any time you hear of a wildfire ignited by a chainsaw or weed whacker it's most likely an illegal alien day labor who was hired to clear brush around a home. You don't use power tools in or near brush without a fire extinguisher and a water hose right next to you.
What was racist? The part calling a Mexican Gardner a Mexican or the little truck a crappy little truck?
The area where the Saddleback fire started in Sylmar near Yarnell and the 210 freeway is notorious for being inhabited by meth heads who have big Trump 2020 signs on their rusty pickups, MAGA Hats, missing teeth and Trump Tatoos on their foreheads. I wouldn’t be surprised if this fire was started by one of those guys trying to cook up a small batch in their single wide.
