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THE VALLEY FIRE IS
AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN ENVIRONMENTALISM
TRUMPS COMMON SENSE AND LOGIC. ENVIRONMENTALISTS
NEVER TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE HAVOC THEY CREATE PART II |
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ENVIRONMENTAL
TERRORISM It
happened before It
happened again Even before the ash from the Angora fire has
settled, some South Lake Tahoe residents have begun to lob accusations that
decisions based on politics contributed to Sunday's devastating blaze. The League
to Save Lake Tahoe,
the Wilderness Society and the Sierra Club's
influence drew much of the ire of Sue Abrams, a resident of the Mountain View
Estates subdivision heavily damaged during the blaze. These groups exert too
much control over Tahoe Regional Planning
Agency policy
decisions, according to Abrams. "No policies in the 30 years I've been here
allow us to create defensible space," Abrams said during a phone
interview on Monday. "Every ordinance that was put together over the
past 30 years except for the past year or so has been hands-off. Every bit of
this was preventable had politics moved aside." http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20070626/NEWS/106260040 The Angora Fire wind driven fire South Lake Tahoe, California 2:15 PM Sunday, June 24, 2007 Steps
to prevent catastrophic wildfires in the Lake Tahoe basin, one of the
country’s most treasured natural wonders, have been hampered for years by
bureaucratic infighting among agencies that often work at cross purposes,
according to thousands of pages of documents reviewed by The Associated
Press. The failure of the agencies to adequately protect the basin was
brought to light last June when the Angora Fire ripped through a thickly
forested ravine and destroyed 254 homes near South Lake Tahoe. Since then,
blame has fallen on the overlapping agencies that have environmental and regulatory oversight of the Tahoe basin. A
commission established after the fire is recommending ways to heal the rifts
and will vote on its report Friday. The AP’s review showed just how glaring
the problems have been over the years. Using state and federal freedom of
information laws, the AP obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents from
local, regional, state and federal agencies involved in planning, environmental protection and fire prevention around Tahoe, the
picture-postcard lake that straddles the California-Nevada border. Most of
the documents covered the three years before the Angora wildfire and reveal a
tangle of agencies with competing agendas. Efforts to clear trees and brush were delayed often for years as agencies battled over
methods and jurisdictional disputes. The documents also showed the level of
concern by homeowners and local fire officials, as the forests ringing the
lake had become overgrown in recent decades. As the Angora Fire was churning
through houses and timber in June 2007, homeowners on the opposite shore sent
a letter to a regional planning agency pleading for a fire road to be cut
near their neighborhood. A catastrophic fire (is) waiting to happen, said the letter from
homeowners in the lakeside enclave of Glenbrook. Time is absolutely of the
essence. Shortly after, Tahoe-area agencies granted approval to build the
four-mile-long fire road, a project that had
been delayed for six years
because of disagreements over whether it was necessary. Don
Thompson, Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO (AP) http://www.auburnjournal.com/article/study-tahoe-fire-prevention-hurt-infighting |
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"Every ordinance that was put together over
the past 30 years except for the past year or so has been hands-off. Every bit
of this was preventable had politics moved aside." Years ago property owners, ranchers and
farmers use to keep the creek beds clear of vegetation. They would mine the
gravel constantly maintaining and clearing the creek beds. Both of these
activities allowed for more water volume to pass through that given area at a
given time decreasing the possibility of flooding and further bank erosion
due to widening of the bed caused by the water drainage needing a place to
flow.
When the Valley fire blew through it
moved from one area to another by blowing down the stream beds that were rich
with fuel and provided a funnel effect. It blew down Dry Creek and entered
town after being stopped at Mt. St. Helena Vineyards. It blew down St. Helena
Creek, it blew down Putah
Creek it entered HVL through Putah
Creek after burning down the creek bed leaving everything north of Hartmann
Rd untouched finally entering the subdivision in the back nine. You go look
at the stream beds and you’ll see how the fire moved through areas by blowing
down the stream beds moving from area to area leaving a trail of disaster. That stream bed is private property in
most cases and the property owner can’t touch it without permission from some
acronym. The owner dare not disturb it, clean it, mine the gravel or anything
without permission even though it is private property but will the
environmentalist and the government accept that their out of touch rules are
the cause of destruction – NO. You will see from this Cal-fire map the
Valley Fire followed the fuel down the Putah Creek
stream bed and entered the subdivision at the end of the back nine. Had the
stream bed been cleared the fire may have stopped at our subdivision border
just like it did north of the bridge.
MORE READING: WHAT CAUSED THE VALLEY FIRE TO BE THE 3RD MOST
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY? THE WILDLANDS PROJECT AND HOW
IT IMPACTS OUR HOME |
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