permafrost wrote:
You are correct about the next door idea.. but then you make a leap of faith to hail you orange chieftain..
comeon Seth.. if this is true that it is all the fault of California mismanagement, at least give us some specific information..
to my it seem that nearly all the fires have causes not related to forest management.. lightning strikes, electric lines, fire works, camp fires and even natural combustion..
All made extreme account of c*****e c****e/drought..
As I once posted, in the past I have hiked and camped all over California, and seen the neglect this state affords its forests first hand.
In fact, the majority of my opinions are based on first hand experience and/or personal association of one kind or another.
Travel has been in my DNA or something, and when I was younger I moved around and lived/worked in a number of states, working in a number of areas, from deck hand on a tugboat to retail management to Wall Street before settling into the Protection Industry.
I don't rely entirely on graphs, charts and media bias for my information, knowledge or wh**ever. I also go with common sense.
To top off the rest, I actually get out and about and talk to people, everything from minorities to homeless people to very wealthy folk, and get a lot of first hand accounts of their various realities.
When I come here and read posts by a lot of lefties, what I often see is a total lack of connection with what my own first hand experience tells me.
In my chosen field, a goodly amount of the consulting jobs I've done have required my researching local economies, crime stats and details and generally familiarizing myself with a client property's environs.
All that eng****rs a certain amount of amusement on my part when I read a post from some lofty, clueless "liberal" who deems him/herself somehow "qualified" to speak for people or groups of people he/she knows nothing about.
My industry thrives on pure reality and the best of us steer clear of so-called "conventional wisdom."
For example, the other day I was reading an article on In-T***sit Shrinkage Control in one of the security industry journals I subscribe to, and in addition to discussing methodology the author goes into depth about the local and regional economies versus geographies of the worst trouble spots. Pure data, based heavily on personal experience (all the industry articles I read are written by professionals involved in the areas of which they write), no fluff, no speculation.
That's exactly the way I form my views.