www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210902-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1630724037
“By Aug. 23, wildfires had burned 1.76 million acres in California, according to Cal Fire. By that date last year, 1.63 million acres had been scorched; the year would end with 4.2 million acres burned. About 57% of California’s forestland is under federal jurisdiction; most of the rest is privately owned.
“At this point, Albrecht said, there’s no guarantee 2022 won’t be as bad or worse.
“‘We cannot make sure of that, because the constant is the fuel loading, the fire hazard year after year,” Albrecht said. “It doesn’t change because we’re not doing anything at the pace and scale that we need to to thin our forests out. We’re really at the mercy right now of the drought that we’re in.'”
“Wildfires bring renewed calls for thinning forests,” beginning on page 12.
Drought and fires continue to lead the headlines. But few of the media are covering the beginning of some resistance to the California State Water Board’s draconian cut-off of water to agriculture. Beginning on page 8, we have a couple of examples of that.
Like Biden, Governor Newsom, facing a recall election on September 14, continues to attempt to deflect from his disastrous leadership by blaming former President Donald Trump. He even is calling his leading opponent, Larry Elder, “Larry Trump,” or “Donald Elder.” Pathetic!
An excellent article on the Recall battle is next, by my associate Robert Ingraham, “Will the California Recall Election be the Turning Point for our Republic?”
That is followed by three videos from LaRouche PAC that provide a positive policy for the economy, infrastructure, and science for the nation.
Next, another example of the impossibility of getting any water infrastructure built in California, is the $7 billion water bill passed by voters in 2014, which has not provided one penny for building anything. But, maybe something may be moving on the long-delayed proposed Sites Reservoir.
Then we cover the fires, followed by the final section this week, “A Discussion of the Necessary Forest Management Practices.”
