I am curious of what would happen if you all agreed to cut down the dead trees on mass? Can this level of civil disobedience really be stopped by any Californian authority? To allow a situation to continue that puts dead trees ahead of human life is totally insane.
> Can this level of civil disobedience really be stopped by any Californian authority?
Cambria is only 6,000 people, so, yeah, it probably could.
> To allow a situation to continue that puts dead trees ahead of human life is totally insane.
Except that fire is a standard part of the lifecycle of those trees. So, that town is in the middle of a known fire hazard area. And, given the population age and that there are practically no jobs other than tourism in the area, most of the people probably chose to buy a house there after they made their money elsewhere.
This is kind of like people who get flooded after they build a house in a flood plain.
I was actually in Cambria on Wednesday, for the first time ever, visiting a friend and his family that moved there a few years ago for his job as a CA state ranger. They shared the opinion on the job market and the people that live there. It came up in conversation, as we discussed the reason why small two bedroom one bath house with little to no extra land close to them was recently rented for $1800 a month, by an older couple.
Yes I can understand this. We had a similar issue here in Australia where we let people build in the middle of the forest (tree changers they are called). The stupidity of allowing this building was found out in the last big bush fire where 173 people died.
I was civilly disobedient and had my trees cut and chipped. We are not a geriatric community, but there are a lot of elderly, so they cant do it on their own. More serious problem is that most people dont have the skills to fell an 80 foot tree on a 50 foot wide lot next to another 50 foot wide lot. There are a lot of vacant lots the are owned by nonresidents. And large chunks of Cambria are owned by the state and conservation groups. They arent doing anything yet.
This sounds like a nightmare. Here in Australia we (population and authorities) are really sensitive to the hazards of bushfires and what can happen when you let fuel loads get out of control [1]. Lets hope for all your sakes that the latest el nino brings the risk down - unfortunately it is going to have the opposite effect for us :(
