Steve Earle: Wildfires are result of human mismanagement of resources more than anything else

To The Daily Sun,

I have a question for the writer of a letter from last week here suggesting "global warming" being responsible for the wildfires out in Los Angeles. That is, are we to now blame everything bad that might happen in life on global warming? For instance consider Southern California has had an arid climate since thousands of years before the first Conquistadors set foot there and about 100 years ago +/- canals were built to bring water down from up north to the area, worked great, too. But in the last couple decades folks in California decided to drastically limit the water flow to protect a 2-inch minnow no one has seen in two decades and now there is insufficient water to fight the fires. Those good folks also decided not to spend money on sound forest management providing abundant fuel now for the fires. So am I out of line to offer that these wildfires are more the result of human mismanagement of resources than anything else?

So looking out my window to the thermometer here it's 28 degrees, 4 degrees below freezing, been this way since just after Thanksgiving so forgive me if I find the very idea of global warming leaves me cold (pun intended).

By the way just read that terrible man, President Donald Trump, ordered by executive order that California "open the pumps and valves in the north" to provide the water to fight those fires. Should somebody out there maybe thought of that? Oh yeah I forgot about that extinct minnow.

Steve Earle

Gilford