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You trolling? You know that wasnt their intention and was disingenuous of you to play it that way.

At this point the environmental lobby can hardly claim ignorance.

Some of this was done out of greed and political corruption so that developers could build more unaffordable housing for the wealthy - I would say the gp has some merit in their comment.

I have never seen that claim before.

My understanding is that lack of wild and controlled burns can be attributed to two factors:

1) Emotion driven environmentalism trumping environmental scientists

2) Political deferral due to the risk of blowback from out of control burns.

I'd add..

3) The urban public likes purty forests to go vacation in.

The corrupt developers don't like to publicize their corruption. I happen to know this because I know some of the players (and was even offered opportunities to invest in land before the decision to build a new highway was made public).

I feel like I am missing a few steps. So the claim is that housing developers have been suppressing controlled burns because it drives up housing prices? I feel like I am missing a few steps here

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