Planned power outages start in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties

This is the perspective being pushed in Palo Alto: There’s no mention of climate change as even a potential cause of drier forests, only a “lack of forest mismanagement.”

Forests are dryer than they were in previous decades because a lack of forest management has resulted in more vegetation growing unchecked, which competes for the same amount of underground water. Also, dead vegetation is no longer removed from forests, providing additional fuel for wildfires.

Forests are dryer than they were in previous decades because a lack of forest management has resulted in more vegetation growing unchecked, which competes for the same amount of underground water. Also, dead vegetation is no longer removed from forests, providing additional fuel for wildfires.

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