Mudflow and Debris Flow Barriers in La Canada Crescenta Valley CA
Mudflow and Debris Flow Barriers Protect Homes
Tim Carter was reporting live for TJC-TV near the top of Ocean View Boulevard in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains just before a mud flow happened.
Mud Flow Barrier on Ocean View Boulevard in southern CA.
This is the devastation in Montrose, California just after the historic Crescenta Valley New Years Day debris flow in 1934. CLICK or TAP HERE to read about it.
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Hello Tim - I rarely come across any reports on why the wildfires in CA are so devastating. CA & most of the West is at least 50 years behind in prescribed fire ecosystem restoration compared to the SE such as Florida. My wife & I have lived on a globally endangered Pine Rockland in south Florida since we purchased the degraded pineland over 40 years ago. During that time we have performed 15 prescribed burns with Florida Forest Service & The Nature Conservancy. Most of the forests in the SE are privately owned. Most of the forests out West are government owned. When we went out to Coeur d'Alene, OR for a forestry conference, we visited several local forestry stations to find out about prescribed burns on privately owned pinelands - Forestry only puts out fires out there - hardly any prescribed burning by Forestry. On top of that, the CA governor passed a law preventing the cutting & thinning of the millions of dead Douglas Firs in that State. The firs only live 100 years at most. Also, when the Douglas Firs go through a drought, their bottom branches droop - ladder fuels for fires. They do not drop their bottom branches. There are so many Firs out there that they are called piss pines - you can hardly walk through many of the stands. To reduce devastating wildfires, they must thin the forests, replant the proper native pines in areas that have burned, and perform prescribed burns.