To many observers, it may appear the country’s most populous state is going up in smoke.
“I was so surprised and confused… about what these fires were about. And I think that was a clue that I didn’t understand this new landscape that I moved to,” Walker said. “Like other Europeans moving to California, to this country, I really brought my European familiarity set with me and didn’t recognize it.”
Some of those causes involve preventable missteps. For instance, the Camp Fire accelerated towards Paradise after tearing across lands that had been clear cut and replanted with young trees a decade prior. In effect, the replantation created a wildfire superhighway. Sierra Pacific Industries managed those lands, and followed longstanding replantation practices that may have unintentionally propelled the destruction.
Cunningham noted increasing receptivity in recent years to this ancient understanding. Yet… “There’s still this sense of, ‘We’re going to do it our way, no matter what.’”
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