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September 9, 2021, 5:31pm
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Tamerlane:
It’s been argued that historically, before mass fire suppression caught on, there was always an annual smoke “storm” (well, season anyway) in CA. CA’s ecology is largely fire-adapted because outside of the fog-drip zones (currently struggling with climate change), the single rainy season pretty much guaranteed an annual fire season on the flip side. Hence chaparral belts et al.
The difference of course being that those olden fires, because they were common and ubiquitous, were generally far lower intensity and less threatening. But smoky air would nonetheless have been the norm. At least a few scientists/pundits have argued that if we are ever to even attempt to get back to a healthy ecosystem Californians may need to learn to tolerate some degree of annual smoky seasons from far more extensive controlled burns.
Have you seen this recent documentary? It’s bottom line message is that climate change plays a smaller role than our own forest management practices in the fires we see today. Especially chilling is the town council meeting in Paradise a year after fire essentially destroyed the town, where fire mitigation requirements on houses and landscaping were uniformly voted down.
Bring Your Own Brigade is a 2021 American documentary film, written, directed, and produced by Lucy Walker. It follows the aftermath of the Camp Fire (2018), the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history.
The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 29, 2021. It was released in a limited release on August 6, 2021, prior to digital streaming on Paramount+ on August 20, 2021, by CBSN Films and Paramount Pictures.
The film follows the Camp F...