Trump mocked for telling California to rake its forests like Finland to reduce fire risk
Source: Mercury News
Twitter users lampooned President Trump Saturday with images like this doctored photograph after he suggested that California could reduce its fire risk if it raked forests like Finland. (Twitter image via @ajhtweeting)
UPDATED: November 18, 2018 at 4:38 am
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You gotta take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important, Trump told reporters, as Gov. Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom stood nearby. You look at other countries where they do it differently and its a whole different story. I was with the president of Finland and he called it a forest nation, and they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things and they dont have any problem. And when they do, its a very small problem.
Trump appeared to be talking about the need to thin forests that are overgrown from decades of fire suppression, something that Brown accelerated this fall when he signed a law approving $1 billion in state money over the next five years for forest thinning projects and controlled burns. Trump did not mention the role of drought or climate change in drying out the states forests, or power lines. Or the fact that many of the fires, particularly in Southern California, arent burning in forests at all, but in chaparral, or that fact that this one began in an area of federal land, the Plumas National Forest. His communications staff immediately cut off further questions.
Social media users pounced, noting that while California has a mostly dry Mediterranean climate, Finland is a Nordic country at the same latitude as Siberia, Greenland and Alaska, where temperatures reach -45 F in the winter, and the local animals include reindeer.
Under the hashtag #rakeamericagreatagain they raked away at the topic......................................
Read more: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/17/trump-mocked-online-for-telling-california-to-rake-its-forests-like-finland-to-reduce-fire-risk/
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marylandblue
(12,344 posts)We could hire unemployed coal miners to do the raking. Then we can sell the leaves to Disney which can operate Leaf World, where kids pay money to jump into 30-foot high leaf piles.
Ohiogal
(32,066 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)agingdem
(7,858 posts)trump has his MAGA hats we have our rakes...
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)with less than 93,000 of the nearly 40 million who populate it now.
In the thousands of years prior to 1850, who raked California's forests?
The Chinese invented the rake around 1100 BC.
I'm not sure how much the North American Indian used a rake for forest management but I would guess extremely little if at all.
EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)OnlinePoker
(5,725 posts)Here in BC, one community, Logan Lake, took it upon themselves and got provincial funding to do this. They hire high school students for the summer and they work their butts off. It already had a positive impact last year when a small fire started but couldn't make it into the crowns of the trees. Here's the story on this effort.
https://cfjctoday.com/article/631689/wildfire-mitigation-efforts-reducing-risk-logan-lake
underpants
(182,880 posts)Cetacea
(7,367 posts)mitch96
(13,924 posts)Pulls 'em out of his ass and expects people to believe him?? As far as I'm concerned anything he says is untrue until proven otherwise.. period..
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marybourg
(12,634 posts)Nutjob Rightwing TV and radio hosts.
Ramsey Barner
(349 posts)"T[rump] has descended into madness. He is now in Bethlem Hospital or Bedlam, as it was known.
The inmates around him a tailor, a musician, an astronomer and an archbishop are suffering various delusions. One man thinks he is a king, but is naked, carrying a straw crown and sceptre."
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https://www.soane.org/collections-research/key-stories/rakes-progress
nwduke
(352 posts)Rake News!
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)that cheat grass is wildfire tinder by fall.
Initech
(100,103 posts)FakeNoose
(32,763 posts)Hoses make way more sense than rakes.
Bayard
(22,152 posts)Or would the golf cart bounce off too many trees?
KayF
(1,345 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)should rake him, what a delusional POS.