tribal land. only 3% of the land is in state control. so even if the land had started on a fire, it would most likely be under federal or private. additionally, it s kind of a push right now to get logging into those lands, but it s unclear to probably not helpful for helping fight the wildfires. in the case of paradise, there was actually logging just outside of the city where the fire started in recent years, and there is growing evidence that logging actually exacerbates wildfire for a number of reasons. so it s sort of a crypto way of saying we should let logging in these places. it s not even crypto. zinke said as much earlier this summer. instead of watching the state burning and saying we need more logging, because that s what logging interests advocate for. but the scientific evidence suggests that logging might make wildfires worse. that s an important point. liam, obviously this is an issue that california has dealt with for decades, and we ve seen bad fires at diff
fires at different points be. you wonder if there is going to be a real kind of need real, real change in the law, the fire code, the building codes to make sure that this is not going to keep happening and keep happening worse. so there was a big package of wildfire at the state level that passed last year. it talked a lot about the utility companies which are often blamed and are often the cause of a lot of these big fires and sort of how they are involved. in fact, there was part of that package some sort of vegetation thinning that was part of that package as well. the big question that no one has touch and i think for obvious reasons is whether it s okay to rebuild or build at all in some of these more fire-prone areas. and obviously you re dealing with property rights and people wanting to rebuild the homes they ve lost. that s obviously a very touchy political question. yeah, and is a question that is only going to intensify as climate change accelerate, and not just in cali