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Mar 30Liked by Tom Cadwallader

Up here they doing “controlled burns.” The entire valley was coated in smoke. I lived in California growing up. We went through three wildfires - one where we had to ride our horses out of it. This felt no different. I saw one of the county guys at the gym. He told me that by “controlled burns,” they’re double-dipping county resources to clear-cut swaths of land for developers. In just the few years we’ve been here, traffic alone has exploded. It’s now like Matthews was when we first moved to Charlotte. (Maybe analogous to Carboro during peak traffic times.) I don’t know the answer. There are environmental ramifications to terraforming.

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