South Lake Tahoe did "a really good job of forest management" so did not burn in 2021, per Liz Weil on Bulwark Podcast today

Transcript, video below 07:07 "A few years ago there was a big fire coming towards South Lake Tahoe and South Lake Tahoe had actually done a really good job of forest management and whatever, other things happened too. but that was part of the reason that Tahoe didn't burn." (referring to Caldor Fire Sept-Oct 2021) 

Earlier in clip: 

"California is a Mediterranean climate. Our landscape was meant to burn and it is going to burn whether we want it to or not. So we can do that in a controlled way. We can go into the Wildland Urban interface and other areas and try to take the fuel out of there before the Fire gets to it, or we can do nothing and then have these huge mega fires. 

FROM: Wildfire DEVASTATION in LA Is Only the Beginning (w/ Liz Weil) | Bulwark Podcast

Elizabeth Weil is an American journalist and nonfiction writer who wrote for the New York Times for nearly 20 years, during which she also wrote freelance https://www.elizabethweil.net/ 

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