The largest private landowner in California is closing its forests to the public indefinitely beginning on July 1.
Lumber giant Sierra Pacific Industries owns over 2 million acres of forestland across California, Washington and Oregon. The company, which is headquartered in Anderson, Calif., is one of America’s biggest private landowners.
In areas where SPI is not actively logging, the public can usually access the land for hiking, permitted fishing and hunting and cross-country skiing. But starting Friday, SPI’s extensive holdings will be off-limits due to “extreme drought and wildfire conditions.”
“This closure will remain in effect until further notice,” SPI said in a statement. “Public roads that are on SPI forestlands will remain open, but no walk-in access will be allowed.”
In recent years, SPI has taken to closing its lands to the public to mitigate fire risk. According to the National Park Service, 85% of wildfires are started by humans.
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The most common irresponsible actions are leaving campfires unattended, littering still-burning cigarettes, using malfunctioning equipment or outright arson.
The U.S. Forest Service also sometimes closes to lower wildfire risk, although no Forest Service lands are preemptively shuttered so far this summer. You can keep track of active Cal Fire incidents here. [SPI, SFGate]
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I agree with Jeff.
Based upon all the garbage left by the climate fagottfaces and Gretatranny, I don’t trust people to behave properly in forest areas, unless they are wildlife/camping/hunting/fishing types.
Lefties are pigs, and always trash areas. Never pack up garbage. Pigs, filthy pigfaces.
You can close all the forest land (agenda 21). You can ban campfires, bbq’s, fireworks, 2-stroke engine equiptment, you can ban all those things. But you can’t ban lightning from heaven. Or the anarchist arsonists from hell.
California is dead, All its forests, parks, streets and neighborhoods. Dead trees everywhere. No wildlife. It’s rocks and dirt. Horrific weather. No rain. No water. Total desolation with not one beautiful area left and not one redeeming quality. It cannot be saved.
Sure it can be saved. All the government criminal political satanists doesn’t want to deploy desalinization plants. They want misery and desolation. If they were forward thinking, they could easily produce the water they need. Also, they should quit diverting water from streams and rivers into the ocean.
Closing wildlands is a smart idea. Stupid people start campfires, then abandon them without even trying to put them out. I know. I live near wildlands and it happens all the time. Millions of acres burned up every year. Look on the national fire incident website.