[HN Gopher] California's drought may have helped solve the myste...
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California's drought may have helped solve the mystery of a 1965
plane crash
Author : Thevet
Score : 53 points
Date : 2021-06-15 14:36 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| DoreenMichele wrote:
| Five of the six years that I was homeless in California were
| drought years. I didn't really understand or appreciate that
| until that last year when the rains came and I did things like
| took out a loan to spend three nights in a hotel because my "safe
| from the storm" campsite was under multiple feet of water and the
| worst rains were yet to come.
|
| I clearly and obviously benefited significantly from having the
| good fortune to be homeless mostly during drought years in
| California. So I sometimes wonder how many silver linings get
| overlooked while we wring our hands about some _obviously bad_
| thing.
|
| Some pine trees cannot reproduce without fire. So if you stamp
| out forest fires entirely, you kill the forest in the long run.
|
| In reality, we never succeed in completely stamping out forest
| fires. So what happens is that successfully keeping it to a
| minimum results in a build up of dead wood and some of the worst
| fires in the US have followed years of good and successful forest
| management that was celebrated as a "win" at the time.
|
| Big storms, like typhoons, have been credited with carrying
| various species to islands where they become distinct species
| thanks to isolation. The distance crossed with the help of the
| storm is not one they can fly or navigate intentionally.
|
| I am an environmental studies major and I've lived without a car
| for over a decade and I've lived without an air conditioner for
| years. I'm concerned about climate change and I do my best to
| walk the walk.
|
| But I wonder at times about how things get discussed as if "X is
| _good_ and Y is _bad_ ". I wonder if that's really the best and
| most useful way to have such discussions.
| olivermarks wrote:
| There's a lot of denial about the natural state of California
| IMO: fire and drought are an important part of the ecology, but
| unfortunately humans have built homes on fire plains and there
| is much hysteria about humans influencing the climate
| asdff wrote:
| Just across the border in Mexico the chaparrel is much
| healthier and more diverse, because they let wildfires burn.
| olivermarks wrote:
| https://calpba.org/good-fire-alliance There is a growing
| realization again finally that managing vegetation needs on
| properties through controlled burning and other techniques
| is essential
| eonlegal wrote:
| That may not be a huge benefit, considering the destruction the
| drought is likely to cause. But it may give some people closure.
| bos wrote:
| The wreck is actually from a 1986 crash that saw no fatalities.
|
| https://www.facebook.com/199535516767620/posts/4006006656120...
| null_object wrote:
| > The wreck is actually from a 1986 crash that saw no
| fatalities.
|
| I'm obviously as unsure as anybody of the correctness of this
| analysis, but I found a source that _wasn 't_ Facebook for your
| alternative: https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/06/16/folsom-
| lake-plane...
| Stratoscope wrote:
| I too am generally skeptical of Facebook posts, but this
| wasn't just some random Facebook user, it was an official
| post from the Placer County Sheriff's Office. In fact the
| CBS13 article is simply repeating what the Sherriff's Office
| had already reported in their Facebook and Twitter posts.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Services like the Internet Archive have a hard time, if
| they're able to at all, archiving Twitter and Facebook
| social posts, so having alternate sources is helpful in
| that regard.
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