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From: Chuckles, [DNS_Address]
Subject: 92 Year Old Living Off The Grid
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From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 92 Year Old Living Off The Grid
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Yes, he and what he has accomplished is amazing. However, perhaps it is the reality of today, but the first thing that came to my mind after seeing his place in the middle of the forest was - oh my gosh - it's in northern California - what if there is a forest fire and he loses everything he has worked his entire life for? I know one can't live with constant fear, but given the number and sizes of the recent fires in N. Cali..... |
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From: Chuckles, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 92 Year Old Living Off The Grid
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Many of those large fires were further inland away from the coast, and were where fires suppression has taken place over many decades allowing the fires to be hotter with the abundant undergrowth. Yellowstone is a good example when close to 800,000 thousand acres burned in 1988, in which the Forest Service learned first hand what years of fire suppression does. Even though a forest has been managed with thinning and removal of undergrowth, that forest can still burn, it just won't be as hot destroying the top soil, and that the problem with many of these huge fires lately, they're destroying the top soil. The Angora Fire in South Lake Tahoe back around 07, burned down the cabin I lived in, and it was after the forest was thinned out. A camper didn't put out their campfire good enough as we had 45 mph winds the next day. It looked like a atomic bomb went off and burned over two hundred homes in just a matter of a few hours. In about a hundred years, the area will have beautiful large pine trees. And looking at the layers of soil on the embankment along the Truckee River in that area, their are signs of previous fires in the area, it always recovers. This beautiful soul has done a marvelous job with the property, and it shows. I just hope who ever eventually takes over continues with what he had done already, so much more to do. When I was a teenager I would go live with this Family off grid on 300 acres up in Mendocino County during my summer vacations, and one of my jobs was thinning out the undergrowth, super hard work. |
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