Letter: Recent wildfires mostly occurred in scrub and oak, not redwood - East Bay Times

Recent fires mostly inscrub, oak, not redwood

Re: “California summit on wildfires top priority” (Letters to the editor, Nov. 20):

Letter-writer Mr. Miller needs to look at the environments where California’s wildfires are taking place. Old-growth redwood forests are not at risk for fires.

Old-growth redwoods are fire-resistant and clear-cutting them increases the risk of catastrophic fires by creating young even-aged tree plantations that have too many trees too close together.

The recent fires have been mostly scrub and oak, not redwood. Of course the only way timber companies make money is by cutting the large fire-resistant trees, so they would love for people to think that those trees are the problem.

James FeichtlBelmont

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