On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:45:19PM +0800, David Savage wrote: > At 01:38 PM 24/10/2007, John Francis wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:43:36AM +0800, David Savage wrote: > > > > > > I was just wondering last night after seeing the latest reports. Do > > > they (state land management department) do prescribed burning & cut > > > firebreaks earlier in the year before the start of the fire season? > > > >Not a lot - that would take money, and California has budget issues. > > I wonder what the cost of battling out of control bush fires is doing to > the state budget?
Look - you know, and I know, that money spent on preventative measures saves many times the cost. But you can't persuade politicians to think in the long term - they only care about dollars being spent today. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
