Chaparral Wisdom
To celebrate the magic and beauty of Nature & the chaparral
Category: Forests
How The Democratic Party in California Is Selling Out Nature
Those we once thought valued the natural worldare targeting all of wild California If Senate BIll 1370 becomes law as currently written, it will codify one of the final pieces in the movement in California that views nature and wild through an anthropocentric lens.… Continue Reading “How The Democratic Party in California Is Selling Out Nature”
New Study Finds Increase in California Forest Fires Over the Past Half-century is Attributable to Human-caused Climate Change
Drying landscapes = More landscapes burnPast fire suppression activitiesor lack of “cultural burning” are not a factor Four new observations should change the current narrative about wildfires. Will these new facts change the wildfire narrative? In the short run, we are doubtful. Why?
The Beginnings of the Fire Suppression Fallacy
– How Truth Metastasized Into A Lie – The Fire Suppression Fallacy –(Part IV) How did the observation that fire suppression may have caused some forests to miss several natural fires due to firefighting metastasize into a pernicious stereotype that has convinced huge numbers… Continue Reading “The Beginnings of the Fire Suppression Fallacy”