https://www.vox.com/2018/8/6/17655626/trump-wildfire-twitter-mendocino-complex-carr-california
Humans are increasing wildfire risks, but “bad environmental laws” aren’t the problem.
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The 2018 wildfire year has been devastating. As of Monday, the National Interagency Fire Center reports that there are 60 uncontained large fires across the country, with a total of 5.1 million acres ravaged by fire so far this year.
These deadly infernos have killed several firefighters, forced hundreds of people to flee, and destroyed hundreds of homes and thousands of acres of wilderness.
The Carr Fire in Northern California is now the state’s fifth-largest fire on record after igniting more than 160,0000 acres and killing seven people. But it’s been bested in size by the Mendocino Complex fire, which, at 273,000 acres, is the second-largest in…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I really could not believe this. All that water being wasted by flowing to the Pacific! Good grief. I hope he isn’t saying that we need to dam up more rivers! The fisheries, rivers and oceans are already in enough trouble as it is.
Speaking of water, I watched the most enchanting documentary about the Yucatan cenotes the other day. Talk about a magical underwater Atlantis! I hope it stays just as beautiful and pristine as it is always, and not turned into the mess of US bodies of water. I have to visit one day.
…better do it soon.