I remember the LA basin in the 70s. It's not the people, it's the corporations.

On a more personal note, this thread made me think of your dad and I in a group at some restaurant at Josh Gold's wedding, singing Give Peace a Chance at full voice.

All very good, but #4 is my favourite. I like the drama.

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As someone who got a doctorate studying one small part of the machinery by which birds see, I still have no idea. But I see that inclined-head posture a lot from our bluebirds, and I speculate they are pointing their lateral fovea - the area of highest acuity - at the nearby ground.

Haha, yes. Are you a small insect? Tasty or toxic?

I like it. What would you suggest instead?

My point is that the loggers preferentially take the big trees, which are far more fire tolerant, and which don't support such extreme fire behavior, while leaving the smaller trees that grow in high density supporting hotter fires, but which have little market value.