There are about 80 million acres of forest and open range land in California that are at risk of wildfire. We can never hope to clear even a fraction of that but we do have to be strategic and we need better forestry management to reduce fuel load and tree density. There are 129 million dead trees in the state, we can begin by getting those out.
But in CA, if you try to remove a tree that is a risk, someone will sue you. PG&E remove hundreds of thousands of trees every year that are a threat to transmission lines. Almost every time they pull a permit to remove a dangerous tree, someone objects....even communities that have had catastrophic fires like Oakland, routinely object to tree trimming and removal. People want to live in semi rural rustic areas, surrounded by mature trees, they also want electricity delivered to their home, and they want someone else to assume the liability if a fire starts and pay for a new house.
You can't buy happiness, but you can buy new fly fishing gear and that usually does the trick.
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