"overgrowth here in the hill country"
it ain't overgrowth, it's just growth.
Maybe get rid of forrests near suburban areas and replace them with a different species of fire resistant trees? Leave the forrests alone in wild areas and manage them accordingly. I bet you very houses or none would burn down. But just like everything in califas, they make simple solutions seem impossible.
But but climate control
Need to trim growth
Just like you trim growth on your grass on back yard
Need to water forest
Just like you water your grass on back yard
a local news chopper covering the massacre spotted the small brush fire that is woolsey. it did not start in a forest, smh.
its called drought and spark and 50 mph winds.
They need to burn the way nature intended.
Yeah it is overgrowth or secondary growth. You clear a few Ash Junipers and you get a dozen sprouting up to take their place unless you burn afterwards. That's why TPWD encourages prescribed burns for land management.
That's not practical for such large areas and you'd still get the undergrowth. Nature already has a solution, it's called fire. They need to do prescribed burns but there's too many regulations. Took 13 years just to do one small prescribed burn in the Sierra Nevada.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2...-forests-burn/
It took 13 years to carry out this one 760-acre planned fire. The state’s stringent air quality rules add vast regulatory obligations to planned a managed fire but don’t apply if the same area ends up burning on its own — as would be inevitable.
Trump/GOP assertion that logging is the solution is also misguided. The fuel source that needs to be removed, undergrowth and dead wood, is commercially worthless.
The Hill Country not have close to the amount of fuel that a forest does.
In addition to the lack of the Santa Anna winds etc...
You build your house in a forest get ready to replace it.
You build your house on a hurricane coastline get ready to replace it.
You allow houses to be built on marshlands get ready to replace them.
You build your house on active fault lines, sides of Volcanoes...
In addition The climate has changed along with humans living in dangerous areas that are susceptible to the changes.
When was the forest raking bill enacted?
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