Duckbilled Plattypus. on Nostr: I was just talking to someone from our volunteer fire dept today about a wildfire. We ...

I was just talking to someone from our volunteer fire dept today about a wildfire. We haven't had a major wildfire here in a 100 years. Most of our woods are second growth from the 1920s, and many of the old pastures for dairy have been abandoned back to woodlands as family dairy farms have disappeared. While we still have water up in the hills and streams and rivers, it's getting drier, with less snowfall. Only one small hilltown has had a plan for the last 30 years or so in case of a major wildfire, and that is to use their armada of surplus military dozers to cut a fire break around their entire town, and watch the other towns burn. It's a little ruthless, but it's a plan, I guess.