>> But besides farming and moonshine, a
>> man can make a living cutting firewood with just a truck and chainsaw,
>> and do it in the National Forest, which has signs up asking them to come
>> in to cut out the diseased trees. That reduces the fuel should a fire
>> get going.

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>A healthy forest is about 30 - 50%% dead wood and needs to be burned
>every now and then anyway, i. e., Big Thicket in deep E Texas.
>
>Taking out the "fuel" screws up the balance.
>
>Mexico has the exact same "fuel" situation as California yet the
>Mexicans never have any problems because they don't build houses in
>fuel.
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>How dumb do you have to be to build a house in fuel?
>
>Dumb as a stick?
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