LOADING ERROR LOADING Saturday morning, as entire California towns were engulfed in flames, the president retreated to Twitter. Instead, he offered an explanation for the wildfires ― California’s “poor forest management” ― and threatened to withhold federal recovery funds. Poor forest management is a nod to logging interests and, for reasons others have pointed out, is not the root cause …
California firefighters criticized President Trump for a tweet Saturday that incorrectly stated that this week’s devastating fires were the result of poor forest management. Trump said poor forest management policies caused the fires plaguing the state, even though the massive Woolsey fire didn’t occur in a forest. “We’re having no problems as far as access to water supply,” Scott McLean, …
