I think I missed the first 8 minutes - but I caught the following
$1B will be spent to improve forest health and reduce threat of fires
1 million acres per year will be treated - 50% state - 50% federal
working draft of plan should be available in May or June
plan should be certified in Dec 2019
after that may take 6 months for first projects to be approved under
the new plan
there are a total of 31 million acres under federal or state wildfire
responsibility in California
many solutions will be difficult - hardening structures is outside
scope of the plan - there is no one major cure
we really can improve the situation
bottom line - seems that they will be putting more money into fire
prevention - primarily thru forest treatments / thinning / chipping /
burning / etc - maybe in some new areas that have not been treated in
the past - no mention of response times nor firefighting effectiveness
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