3 Ways to Prevent California Wildfires

My recent article for Epoch Times:

Commentary

Wildfires are once again burning down California.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on July 22, “The Tamarack Fire burning through nearly 44,000 acres near South Lake Tahoe crossed the border into Nevada late Wednesday as flames encroached on Highway 395, prompting evacuation warnings.”

This is just the beginning.

The Tamarack Fire is on federal lands controlled by U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration. But other fires inevitably will break out on state lands controlled by the California government.

The fires are a major threat to life and property—and to Gov. Gavin Newsom as he campaigns against the Sept. 14 recall election. He’s fingering a predictable culprit for the fires: climate change.

“We’re burning up, we’re choking up, we aren’t just heating up,” Newsom told Biden during a June 30 meeting of Cabinet officials and Western governors.

But it’s not climate change, U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock told me. The Republican congressman represents the area being burned down by the Tamarack Fires. It’s been a top issue with him since I met him 34 years ago when he was a young assemblyman and I was starting out writing editorials for The Orange County Register.

He pointed to Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the Spanish explorer who on Oct. 8, 1542, first espied San Pedro Bay and named it “Bayo de Los Fumos” (Smoky Bay) because it was burning down.

McClintock quipped, “That wasn’t because people were driving SUVs.”

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