Anthony from Los Angeles County

My primary reason for supporting the recall is wildfires and forest management. Governor Newsom has stated that the sole reason for the devastating wildfires is climate change. Climate change is definitely occurring, but the reason the fires have been so bad is because there has been an absolute lack of forest management. There are currently eight regulatory agencies that govern the timber industry in California. Collectively those regulations have made it so that logging is not economically feasible. The logging industry used to provide forest management and reduction of fuel load. Since that business has been effectively eliminated, no other entity, specifically the state, has no picked the job of maintaining forests. CALFire has estimated that there are now 150 million dead trees in our forests as a result of forest density that causes blight, propagation of disease and brush undergrowth.
State policies supported by Newsom are killing people and destroying whole towns, eg, Paradise, CA. If not recalled, Newsom should be otherwise held liable for the policies he supports.