A thread on the fire history in Southern California, with its special "fire-evolved" ecosystem and Santa Ana phenomenon. Not specifically about the current #LAfires . https://bsky.app/profile/pyrogeog.bsky.social/post/3lfd7je7gw22l
By Crystal A. Kolden , Director of UC Merced Fire Resilience Center. Pyrogeographer. Wrote a paper 2017 on SoCal fires, about whether they were Santa-Ana induced or not. The image below is from the paper. The red dots on the map are Santa Ana fires, the blue dots aren't.
The thread concludes with hope for better living with the fires by fire-proofing old infrastructure according to newest standards, and managing fuel load.
Hm. Prescribed fires – their smoke is dangerous for the population.
Managing fuel load manually sounds impossible because this is not forest with dead branches and leaves littering the ground.
And if people "plant" stone gardens around their property, the summer temperatures increased by this new feature will be unbearable. They already are in my book..
Fireproofing all old infrastructure sounds like a project that lasts decades..
Anyway. Good thread. Makes a difference when an expert can just speak about what they think is important – versus a middleman asking the expert questions and leading the narrative. I know of only very few journalists who manage to ask good questions. Mostly, the Q work to keeping debate on kindergarden level. Not good.
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