No Prescribed Burns – Not Now, Not Ever…

Posted on April 16, 2019 by lvhf

Post Woolsey fire, fear mongering has seemingly become the norm. Actually, it has increased beyond imagination. In addition to the usual suspects looking for personal gain to develop more by clearing land, there are surprising newcomers to the “don’t consider the science, or listen to the facts”, just burn baby burn down more of what is left of the Santa Monica Mountains that was scorched by the largest fire ever in its history with over 100,000 acres of wildlife habitat wiped out and more than 23,000 trees just gone. And who are the geniuses pushing this antiquated, false, and destructive narrative? We are going to bring transparency to the forefront, identify, and refute their propaganda with FACTS, as we progress in this fight against the lunacy of intentionally igniting more fires to burn down what little chaparral habitat is left to sustain our wildlife and further destroy our unique and increasingly threatened mediterranean ecosystem. 

And just as tragic, these actions actually endanger more of our mountain communities, increasing risk of wildfire wiping out our homes. Fear mongering under the pretense that more burning will somehow protect homes from wildfires in a wind driven fire aka Woolsey is false and unjust. We join the Chaparral Institute, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, and many more orgs and scientists in strongly opposing intentionally burning down more of California. And, we will start with Governor Newsom for one — who contrary to the evidence, science, facts, and history of fire behavior has issued intentional burn orders across the state (including bypassing CEQA)…