If you look everywhere west of Colorado and even look how low the Colorado River is most years now (compared to how it used to be in the 70s to 90s, you can see how bad the ongoing relative drought in the western states actually is. In California we are basically moving towards becoming a desert throughout a lot of the state. (But, remember about 1/3 of the state actually is a desert from the Arizona border up to Death Valley up the east of the Sierras). So, more of California appears (at least for now) that it might become a desert too over time.
This is just a part of what we are dealing with here in California long term. The ONLY people in California who are sure to have enough water ongoing, live by the ocean where in emergencies ocean water can be boiled and separated from the salt and purified for watering and drinking. Most of the state though is dependent upon rains which this year so far are not coming. (At least so far).
And worse than that, when they do come many likely will die from flash floods caused by the burn areas being burnt up so close to the rains coming down like the 25 in Montecito last winter.
It is strange that the fires Woolsey and Hill fire are starting around the same time as the Thomas fire last year which eventually over a couple of months burned its way slowly over to the mountains above Santa Barbara so when the rains came it killed 25 people and sent boulders sometimes as big as semi trailers through houses in the mud slides all the way to the ocean in some cases.
So, when Trump talks about "Forest management" he has no idea what he is talking about at all. After all, he has never been to California even on the campaign trail and likely the last time he was here was to boink Stormy Daniels at Lake Tahoe years ago now.
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