boston.com’s The Big Picture continues to be my favorite feed of late. Amazing content and photography tell the tale so well. Add today’s photos of the fires burning across California with this article titled “Fire Season” in National Geographic Magazine this month and it’s a pretty complete (ahem) picture. Essentially it seems to boil down to the fact that decades of aggressive fire “management”—added to drought and disease—has created our own perfect storm conditions here in the west. Now toss millions of people into the mix… “In the 1990s, eight million new homes sprouted along the borders of parks and forests, where fires regularly start. The government spends exorbitantly attempting to defend property in these areas. Formally this is known as the wildland-urban interface. Some firefighters call it the stupid zone.” [emphasis mine] Don’t get me started on the stupid zone.
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boston.com’s The Big Picture continues to be my favorite feed of late. Amazing content and photography tell the tale so well.

NGM Add today’s photos of the fires burning across California with this article titled “Fire Season” in National Geographic Magazine this month and it’s a pretty complete (ahem) picture.

Essentially it seems to boil down to the fact that decades of aggressive fire “management”—added to drought and disease—has created our own perfect storm conditions here in the west. Now toss millions of people into the mix…

“In the 1990s, eight million new homes sprouted along the borders of parks and forests, where fires regularly start. The government spends exorbitantly attempting to defend property in these areas. Formally this is known as the wildland-urban interface. Some firefighters call it the stupid zone.” [emphasis mine]

Don’t get me started on the stupid zone.