Your favorite conifer of the Western US?
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Redwood
Now we know the real reason that DeBoer left for 'Bama. No worries about big forest fire payouts down there.
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Ponderosa Pine
Considering the fire risk when we moved here in 2020 we were probably getting a steal on rates. I have a good buddy who is a broker in WA and he told me to shut the fuck up and be thankful I haven't been dropped. Lol.
At least, were not in Florida. They're fucked.
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Douglas Fir
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Western Red Cedar
Florida and California. The carriers are speed racing to get out of that state. CA will be on a state funded, state mandated, state run insurance program in no time because the cost of doing business there is just to high. Mostly the states fault for failing to manage their forests properly.
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Ponderosa Pine
CA (and many other states) @houseofpain247have had terrible forestry management and that's part of the problem no doubt. This issue (garbage forest) is certainly the biggest fire risk posed to my house.
But I'll bet there are many more billions of dollars of CA real estate at high risk for fire in the chaparral scrublands of Central and Southern CA than in poorly managed conifer forests. And that's not a forestry management issue per se. It's a building homes in dry scrubland fuels prone to Santa Anna winds. That shit has always burned. It burned when the @Swaye s started eating acorns and it burned when @creepycoug tried to get a foot hold in Alta California but couldn't find enough settlers to hold off my peoples.
Both of my childhood homes in Ramona and Poway, CA came within a few hundred yards of burning down in the 2003 Cedar and 2007 Witch Fires. Grandma's house in Laguna Beach came within two lots of burning down in 1993.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
the correct answer was blue spruce
