Comment Re:Forest management (Score -1) 77
My reputation? On slashdot? LMAO! That is the funniest thing I've heard here in a long time. This is a totally dead social media site. There's only a few dozen repeat posters and a few more who very rarely post on specific topics. And 99% of are anonymous posting under some silly alias or worse literally posting anonymously. There are more sock puppets here than real people. If I cared about my "reputation" among a group of mostly brainwashed leftists I could easily karma whore my way to excellent karma and keep it there forever by posting the same easily refuted nonsense others post here all the time. You can score a +5, informative here without a link, without a statement of fact, just bash the right and the troll mod sock puppets crawl out of the wood work to +5, virtue signal the post. Happens every day. But post a solid fact they don't like backed by a reliable link? Oh, it's instant -1, troll from the same intellectually bankrupt clowns.
My reputation? What a weird thing to say. Are you concerned about your slashdot "reputation"? If so, why? No one here has a reputation.
Now then back to the drought topic, I already said California has varying climates. That includes drought zones. And there's nothing about those which has ever been consistent either. Drought might be for a season or many many years. And then it rains a lot, the reservoirs refill, hopefully, and everything is ok until next time. The only thing consistent is the inconsistency of the rainfall and drought patterns. There is no pattern to the droughts, they are not predictable.
Invasive species... ah yes... are you aware that pretty much EVERY species currently in California is not native? Go back to before Europeans showed up and most of the plant life was entirely different. Not 100% but most. And what could possibly have an effect on drought, the water tables, rain fall, the snow pack, etc, etc? It couldn't be humans changing the entire water system, could it? At least check over 90% of the available water goes to the farms. To make dumb shit like water thirsty cash crops like almonds. And a huge number of those almonds get shipped out over seas. So California in a sense is literally shipping water to other countries. Yet they're a drought heavy state. No one can make it make sense. The state's forest and water policies are fucking crazy.
The best thing we can do for the forests is leave them the fuck alone. Stop building cities literally inside forests. Stop stomping out every little fire. Do go back to controlled burns, cutting fire breaks, thinning out older areas with logging to keep those huge old trees from becoming the source of fuel for next mega fire, stop running fucking high power lines through forests. Jfc, these are not hard things to figure out.
Will there still be fires and even sometimes a huge fire? Yes. Will there be way way fewer huge fires and much less horrific damage done to both people and the forests? Overall, absolutely, yes. But it requires intelligent forest management which the state hasn't seen since I was a kid.
