Steve Breen for September 02, 2021

Bear tears, like crocodile tears, aren’t useful. What would (have been) useful: Cutting emissions, sane forest management, negative population growth…

Interestingly, at least until recently, Tahoe was full of climate deniers.

The top climate denier, Old Wack Donald, says it’s all because they don’t sweep their forests;

I see again the forest fires are starting," he said at a rally in swing-state Pennsylvania. “They’re starting again in California. I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests — there are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.”Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it because they don’t listen to us."

GET OUT YOUR RAKES!!!!! The Velveeta Voldemort said so!!!

A couple of years ago there was a t-shirt that said, “Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires” with Smokey the Bear. Underneath that it said “No, seriously! We’ve been defunded!”

Gosh, Thanks Donny Dimwit! Capt. Chaos has a legacy that just keeps burning, and burning, and burning. Like he soaked the energizer bunny in gasoline, set it on fire, and turned it loose. Probably not related to his desires to use wayyyy more lumber from the parks and other crony deals. Naw…

I mourn the death of all nonhuman animals as well as human animals in the fires, flooding, hurricanes becoming worse because of climate change.

While I do accept that climate change definitely effects fires out west, there is some truth in Dump’s analysis of the wildfire’s cause. As a forest owner, myself, I can see the real problem of trash and understory buildup connection to the severity of wildfires. Add to that a severe drought and seasonal winds and you get a dangerous mix for devastation. I also see that the forests out west are too tightly packed especially for the drought conditions which they are now facing. Even in my area of the SE, I had considered thinning out my forests beyond the recommended 10 foot separation some years ago when we too were facing drought conditions. Tightly packed trees fight for moisture to survive and under such stress, they often succumb to diseases and insects and some die. Such trees also burn quite easily and in drought conditions they can become the infernos that we’re seeing along the west coast.

Give him a rake and broom and have him so us how that works out

Smokey’s getting old and not up to the job evidently.

Thanks Steve. We tend to overlook the damage done to wildlife. We’re about 90 miles away and safe, so we’re trying to help in our own small way.

^^^ “We tend to overlook the damage done to wildlife”

I don’t.

And now we have states slaughtering wolves wholesale because the Orange Turd delisted them from the Endangered Species list. (Very disappointed that Biden has not relisted them.)

It’s a tough time to be wildlife these day.

Perfect ’toon Steve, so damned sad – and all that hurricane-water only a couple thousand miles away …

Various idiot Republicans running to replace California Governor Newsom in the upcoming recall election have offered vague ideas on “forest management” as a “cure” for drought and climate change as causes of the rampant wildfires across the west. They never offer any ideas on how to manage forests of dead trees, though.

For unknown reasons, Berkeley Echo Lake Camp was sparred from the fire.

How many times have we pointed out the expected results of AGW and how many times have we been called alarmists and deceptive. It’s happening, folks, much as we said it would happen. Do y’all believe it yet?

Tahoe? Why would the bear be weeping for a human playground, rather than for the nonhuman environment?

Forest fires are an issue in many states. As with any issue being prepared is a neccesity.Solutions should be sought!

California used to do controlled burns way back in the 60s to clear out brush and revitalize forests. However, someone objected that it may inconvenience the lesser spotted northern tic-tic bird and got it stopped. Pity, as we are now reaping the losses of that policy. They want to leave it to nature. Well, this is nature’s way of dealing with clutter. Creosote bushes are like little Zippo lighters. Tumbleweeds are like napalm. All the brush and clutter lays about and collects and, as Sir Donald says, is a tinderbox waiting for the first reckless camper, insane arsonist, illegal marijuana grower or stray bolt of lightning. When we were in elementary school in California, we were taught about forest management and controlled burns. Then the Green Fascists got some money together and bought votes in congress and the state legislature and we have the situation as it sits now.

As Smokey used to say; “Only YOU can prevent forest fires!”

People stopped preventing major forest fires with smaller burns and intelligently controlled logging but that was all stopped and look at it now. Back to nature’s way and she can be a cruel b1tch. The population explosion in California is also partly to blame. We see where so many houses burn. Well, don’t build them there. People used to be allowed to clear brush, creosote bushes and tumbleweeds and assorted trash for yards in all directions from their homes, then the Green Fascists stopped that, too. We’d watch the controlled burns and the fire aircraft controlling them from our back yards in San Fernando and the Thousand Oaks area. We cheered the firefighting airplanes as they came in low with flame retardant foam and water. Like bombing runs. Dad had a scanner and we’d listen to them talk to the firefighters on the ground. It would burn so much then they’d set backfires to control it.

Maybe we should tie Green Fascists to trees and let them experience the fires first hand, to see the results of their propaganda.