The article is doing a lot more casual work than the headline than the article suggests. The fires were caused by lightning and dry conditions, and the source admits nobody knows if the delayed mitigation would have had an effect. It also relies on a former ranger who is running for office in the affected district.
No it isn't, to quote another article by the Washington post: "We were shovel-ready".
Meaning they cut forest fire prevention measures that would have been deployed before the dry season.
These measures are typically aimed to stopping spreads more than they are aimed at preventing causes (lightning is a tad bit hard to prevent, unless you want to build a gigantic grids of extremely high lightning rod towers). E.g. you cut corridors of trees through the woods and keep them clear of any flammable materials, this way the fire can hopefully be compartmentalized or at least slowed down.
I am not sure why you feel the need to defend this, when it is very clear that Doge didn't exactly deploy what anybody would call "care" in selecting what to cut.
Related reporting from last year about cuts to forest fire prevention at [1].
[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-cuts-forest-se...
The article is doing a lot more casual work than the headline than the article suggests. The fires were caused by lightning and dry conditions, and the source admits nobody knows if the delayed mitigation would have had an effect. It also relies on a former ranger who is running for office in the affected district.
This is a political ad
No it isn't, to quote another article by the Washington post: "We were shovel-ready".
Meaning they cut forest fire prevention measures that would have been deployed before the dry season.
These measures are typically aimed to stopping spreads more than they are aimed at preventing causes (lightning is a tad bit hard to prevent, unless you want to build a gigantic grids of extremely high lightning rod towers). E.g. you cut corridors of trees through the woods and keep them clear of any flammable materials, this way the fire can hopefully be compartmentalized or at least slowed down.
I am not sure why you feel the need to defend this, when it is very clear that Doge didn't exactly deploy what anybody would call "care" in selecting what to cut.