#wildfire-management

#wildfire-management

During the twentieth century, the United States declared war on wildfires. In 1935, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service announced "an experiment on a continental scale": every blaze was to be put out by 10 A.M. on the morning after it began. Given that fires had been burning regularly for hundreds of millions of years, this was an enormous departure from the natural order. Fire clears vegetation and delivers nutrients to soil, creating fresh cycles of growth that help ecosystems.

We want federal agencies to succeed, and in fact we need them to succeed," said Wade Crowfoot, California's natural resources secretary, noting that 48% of the state's land is owned and managed by the federal government.

The chatbot, intended to improve access to fire prevention resources, fails to accurately describe wildfire containment and does not reliably provide evacuation information.

Newsom stated that California has allocated more than $4 billion for wildfire protection and forest resilience, while the Trump administration appropriated only $7 billion for all federal lands.

"Make no mistake: this administration will do whatever it takes to sell off the places where we hunt, fish, recreate, and partake in long-standing traditions..."

The East Bay Municipal Utility District proposes a 13% rate increase for water and a 17% for wastewater over two years to modernize aging infrastructure.