Close to one half million living healthy trees to be cut down around San Francisco!!

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60. SusanCalvin, if you ever have the time to hike through the Marin Headlands,

I would be glad to show you an eucalyptus grove in action.

Eucalyptus possess the rare ability to pull moisture out of air, so that you can be hiking through the grasslands, on a hot and summery day, without any clouds in the sky, and then take shelter in a grove of such trees. You will find yourself wet with mist within moments of entering a grove of these trees.

A great deal of industry-generated reports indicate things tht probably are mere conflations. Yes, eucs do have a lower flashpoint in terms of heat that cause them to explode with fire when facing a major fire conflagration.

But in such a situation there are almost no trees that won't catch fire. (It is possible if you keep a hose on a tree, it might survive a fire, if you are able to do that. But often water runs out when fighting a fire, especially in the hills, where even private wells need working electricity to keep the water flowing.)