Re: Newsom's 'Compassion' for Wildfire Victims

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:50:33 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
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I think you or someone else posted about people getting fines if their
plots weren't cleared. I saw a video just a week or two ago about a
guy who had lost his home in the fires that just got the people to
clear his lot. The people that did the work had to wait for multiple
other people to show up to either give approval or to watch the work
being done. There was even a biologist to check if there was some
protected animal there (luckily there wasn't.)

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Bonk
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The hypothetical animal benefitted from the debris remaining place?

I think it's more that in the cleanup process there may be a home for
some protected critter. For instance in the video that I was talking
about he was able to remove a retaining wall that he had wanted gone
for years. It wasn't damaged in the fire but it leaked when it rained
so he wanted it gone. It was entirely possible some protected critter
could have been impacted by the removal of that retaining wall.

At least that's been my thinking.