Connecting the dots. Pb.
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April 7th 2017 Gov. Brown declares drought over and cut $115.8 million from the drought response budget, including $97.5 million for emergency forestry and fire protection response.
www.nbcnews/news/amp/ncna744121?_twitter_impression=true
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Gov. Brown cut the forestry budget for dead tree removal and emergency water tank program from $52.7 million to $8.5 million. It costa about $1000 to remove a dead tree from the forest.
www.ebudget.ca.gov/2017-18/pdf/RevisedSummary/NaturalResources.pdf
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Since Gov. Brown cut the fire budget by almost $100 million the acres burned have almost tripled this year to date to 621,453 acres burned from a 5ytd previous of 231,453 acres.
http:/cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_stats?year=2018
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There have been an additional 345 fires in California this year to date above the same year to date interval average for the last 5 years.
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California is estimated to be $1.3 trillion in debt.
https//californiapolicycenter.org/californias-total-state-local-debt-totals-1-3-3-trillion/