Chaparral Wisdom
To celebrate the magic and beauty of Nature & the chaparral
Category: Forests
It’s about Flammable Homes, not forests
Here’s how to respond to those misleading posts claiming our recent fires are all about tree huggers preventing logging and a supposed fuel build up via past fire suppression. 1. Most of California’s most devastating fires were far from any forest (see map below).… Continue Reading “It’s about Flammable Homes, not forests”
The 2017 Wildfires – How We Think About Nature and Fire
After the massive 2017 firestorm that hit northern and southern California, it is important to take a look nature’s relationship to fire and how nature has been characterized in the wake of what has happened. For this discussion, we will be focusing on the… Continue Reading “The 2017 Wildfires – How We Think About Nature and Fire”
Greedy trees are taking all our water?
In a recent NBC article, Trees vs. Humans: In California Drought Nature Gets to Water First, the anti-forest habitat crusade continues to promote more logging and support the impractical US Forest Service goal of attempting to create “drought and fire resistant” forests through “active”… Continue Reading “Greedy trees are taking all our water?”