Gotta Love CA

[kickemall]

I don't think its going to end soon either. The Hopkins fire in the Mendocino/Shasta Trinity/Six Rivers national forests and a good chunk of the Yolla Bolly wilderness left public land yesterday and is now burning through ranches and lots of small landowners with no one but locals fighting it because there is no one available. By 3:30 today it was awfully dark along 101. No one knows exactly where it is because of the smoke and lack of resources.

 

[MeatBuck]

I don't think its going to end soon either. The Hopkins fire in the Mendocino/Shasta Trinity/Six Rivers national forests and a good chunk of the Yolla Bolly wilderness left public land yesterday and is now burning through ranches and lots of small landowners with no one but locals fighting it because there is no one available. By 3:30 today it was awfully dark along 101. No one knows exactly where it is because of the smoke and lack of resources.

Might get stoned from walking around up there in the smoke. But seriously that fire has exploded in the last 48hrs. Totally dicked.

 

[jmez]

Mother Nature eventually wins.

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[sf jakey]

When no vegetation management practices occur, mountain lions kill any sheep that may graze the land, logging is prohibited, illegal pot grows are everywhere, and all proactive burning is only allowed in times when it won’t burn, this is the result. Add in people moving to the urban interface with no sense of how to live in the mountains, and densely populated mountain towns with minimal ingress/egress, it is understandable how we got here.
California is in the perfect storm of liberal idealism collapsing on itself. COVID business lockdowns based on emotion, not science, have crippled the budget. Wealthy people are fleeing the state, homeless are flocking to the cities, criminals are being set free, and illegals are still a priority over the citizens.
Tough times are ahead. Hopefully this is the reset that is long overdue here. California offers amazing outdoor opportunities. Within 3 hours of home I have world class ocean fishing, world class trout fly fishing, outstanding bass fishing, some of the best waterfowl hunting in the country, excellent deer hunting, mountain biking, snow skiing, surfing, lakes to wakeboard/waterski, Etc etc.
30 years in the fire service, I have been on the front lines of every crisis we face, and I can say that our approach is not working. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

 

[JakeSCH]

California is terrible, if it burns to the ground it would be for the best.

I think you should surprised at how many amazing CA is...just big cities are what is shown on tv / news.

I am not of fan of how the state is managed, but I love the bio diversity. I was out catching tuna and dorado last Friday and archery deer hunting on Saturday.

 

[MattB]

I had friends hunting in Covelo on Tueaday, had to quit at 2P because it got too dark to see.

 

[2rocky]

Biggest Obstacle to Prescribed burns? Air quality issues in large cities like SF during the winter.

 

[RyanT26]

With any luck the fires will sweep through Los Angeles and San Francisco.

 

[sf jakey]

Biggest Obstacle to Prescribed burns? Air quality issues in large cities like SF during the winter.

How’s that working out now?

 

[boom]

i feel bad for the ones that lost home..x100 for any loss of life.

personally, i find it hard to try to make it about me..and my hunting.. i had power outages, my lungs are coal-lungs, i'm busy as eff at work, since one of my job duties is fixing stuff that burned along our roads.. now i have gobs of money, but no hunts. oh well...i wish folks affected the best.

i get that super warm feeling from all the well wishes from you all..hahhaha...

 

[boom]

With any luck the fires will sweep through Los Angeles and San Francisco.

and kill everyone?

 

[boom]

I think you should surprised at how many amazing CA is...just big cities are what is shown on tv / news.

I am not of fan of how the state is managed, but I love the bio diversity. I was out catching tuna and dorado last Friday and archery deer hunting on Saturday.

right..i am about to dip my kayak into smallmouth-bass infest waters..tomorrow.

 

[J Batt]

Closing public land to the public is a civil/human rights violation. Prove me wrong. As a grown ass man I am responsible for my family’s safety and I do not need a government official acting as my parent, telling me what I can or can’t do. The Los Padres(one of the largest forests in CA) near me, has no fires and is shut down. I will not comply and neither should you. This is something I am willing to go to war over. And in the past I litterally did fight for the land that I love. If you agree with Gov Officials then stay in your bedroom until they say it’s safe to come outside.
As for me the land is my obsession. The city is the thing that I see as unnecessary. Public land is the single greatest thing about our country. You have 640million acres to hand to your children as an inheritance.

 

[spike camp]

Felonies are forever...but you do you!

 

[J Batt]

Felonies are forever...but you do you!

If freedom of speech becomes a felony as well I will be among the first incarcerated.

 

[Pacific_Fork]

Los Padres has no fires? Weird the Dolan fire is over 100k acres and is in Los Padres right now. Closure isn’t to protect you, it’s to prevent more fires because we live in a society of retards that start fires easily. The Sabranes fire two years ago was started by some dumb Asian tourist that NEVER got caught but witnesses said they saw him flee the area - made an illegal camp fire and left it unattended and that fire killed one, took out 50+ homes. I don’t blame the forest service for shutting down all forest right now, they can’t afford another fire and can’t contain the ones we have now. Look for a re open soon though, the temps are dropping and RH levels rising fingers crossed!

 

[spike camp]

If freedom of speech becomes a felony as well I will be among the first incarcerated.

Not sure about the correlation, but enjoy your war and felonies.

 

[backcountry_hunter]

Closing public land to the public is a civil/human rights violation. Prove me wrong. As a grown ass man I am responsible for my family’s safety and I do not need a government official acting as my parent, telling me what I can or can’t do. The Los Padres(one of the largest forests in CA) near me, has no fires and is shut down. I will not comply and neither should you. This is something I am willing to go to war over. And in the past I litterally did fight for the land that I love. If you agree with Gov Officials then stay in your bedroom until they say it’s safe to come outside.
As for me the land is my obsession. The city is the thing that I see as unnecessary. Public land is the single greatest thing about our country. You have 640million acres to hand to your children as an inheritance.

So I'm clear..... you don't want the govt to tell you when you can and can't recreate on land owned by them but you see it as a civil/human right that they provide you the same land?

 

[Muley Buck]

So I'm clear..... you don't want the govt to tell you when you can and can't recreate on land owned by them but you see it as a civil/human right that they provide you the same land?

"They" didn't provide it and "they" don't own it. "WE" did and "WE" do.

 

[spike camp]

"They" didn't provide it and "they" don't own it. "WE" did and "WE" do.

Actually.....(c&p)
About 58 percent of the nation's forestland is privately owned, mostly by families and other individuals. The public owns the rest. About three-quarters of the public forestland is owned by the federal government, mostly in national forests, with the rest controlled by states, counties and local governments.


So since YOU own some of this land, what are YOU doing to protect it from this years unprecedented fire danger?