Ed Huntress wrote:
"RBnDFW" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:
"Richard the Dreaded Libertarian" wrote in
message news On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:00:23 -0700, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Aug 31, 5:44 pm, "Buerste" wrote:
"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message

Anyone else dealing with the fires here in CA?
Aren't all these fire due to the Democrats stopping undergrowth
removal?
For 60 years?

Actually it is the fault of that damn Reagan. ;)
Nah, just blame Jimmy Carter. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich
John McPhee wrote an interesting piece about this over a decade ago,
titled "Los Angeles Against the Mountains," in his book _The Control of
Nature_. It went into the problems of the deepening layer of detritus and
underbrush, and the threat it posed of a really big fire.

I should dig it out and re-read it.
Don't bother, just watch CN [D[D[D Fox News

TV news is not John McPhee. If you really want to know the ins and outs of a
subject like that, he's the best.

I read the piece 10 years ago or so. It was interesting then, and kind of
scary.

I've not read McPhee, but I surely do not watch the TV news channels