Be careful what you wish for?

[jhetley]

I see that a Governor is asking for an investigation into the National Park Service over that Grand Canyon fire. I don't know the politics of said Governor. Are we looking for decades of mismanagement here, or short-staffing due to budget cuts that prevented adequate and timely response?

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[lisajulie]

I think it is a bit of both. Budget cuts have been going on for decades, although not as extreme as the recent ones. The policy of not doing controlled burns hasn’t helped at all. And then there’s that pesky climate change.