08-20-2020, 07:45 PM
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
You may know that Santa Barbara is chock full of eucalyptus trees. A friend of mine who lives there told me that during the last big fire they had in SB, the eucalyptus trees were actually exploding.
Eucalyptus is what caused the devastating Oakland fires in 93 or so. It started a pogrom against them in most public lands in Norcal. Thousands have been taken out in Bay Area open spaces. But there are still many on private property.
The fires in the Big Basin affecting Santa Cruz are redwood land with pines and scrub oaks as an understory.