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<blockquote data-quote="Dale00" data-source="post: 3173285" data-attributes="member: 688"><p>Steep hillsides are significantly more risky than flat ground when it comes to fires. Hillsides loaded with dry brush are in effect chimneys waiting to be lit. When you further consider that dense housing developments were allowed on those California hillsides while western Oklahoma has a low density of human dwellings, the need for safety and preventative measures was much higher in California.</p><p></p><p>I've been on those Chaparral covered hillsides in southern California a lot working as an undergrad for a researcher studying fire succession and the effects on wildlife communities. Black sage, manzanita and other oil-laden brush naturally mature into a "torch" of mature dry fuels waiting for a fire to come though so it will be opened up for new successional plants. The politicians for whatever reasons turned a blind eye to the threat.</p><p></p><p>Something similar happened in Australia a few years ago with loss of life. Tragic mismanagement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dale00, post: 3173285, member: 688"] Steep hillsides are significantly more risky than flat ground when it comes to fires. Hillsides loaded with dry brush are in effect chimneys waiting to be lit. When you further consider that dense housing developments were allowed on those California hillsides while western Oklahoma has a low density of human dwellings, the need for safety and preventative measures was much higher in California. I've been on those Chaparral covered hillsides in southern California a lot working as an undergrad for a researcher studying fire succession and the effects on wildlife communities. Black sage, manzanita and other oil-laden brush naturally mature into a "torch" of mature dry fuels waiting for a fire to come though so it will be opened up for new successional plants. The politicians for whatever reasons turned a blind eye to the threat. Something similar happened in Australia a few years ago with loss of life. Tragic mismanagement. [/QUOTE]
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