Projections for hotter-than-usual summer leads to warnings about a tough wildfire season.
The warning is all too familiar: Significant vegetation growth and a projected hotter-than-normal summer could lead to a dangerous wildfire season.
As of Thursday, more than 90,000 acres had burned in California this year, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Cal Fire called that a “Much of that acreage has been consumed by three blazes — the Sites fire in Colusa County, Post fire in northern Los Angeles County, and the Corral fire earlier this month in San Joaquin County.Vegetation growth has been supercharged by back-to-back very wet winters.
Long-term climate change often is blamed for contributing to greater wildfire intensity. But more immediate weather patterns can play a part, such as the ongoing shift from typically wetter El Niño conditions to a drier La Niña. Advocates say clearing out smaller trees and brush and dead trees can help keep smaller fires from exploding into big ones. Peters’ staff said the streamlining provisions still allow ample opportunity for review and court challenges.
In California, a state program has won praise for streamlining regulations for wildland management, but it has its critics, such as theis an environmental impact review process covering 20 million acres of non-federal, fire-prone land in California. The program enables efficiencies in the California Environmental Quality Act that can cut review timelines from years to months, according to the California Wildfire & Forest Resilience Task Force.
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