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Pine trees, trees and other tall trees are being targeted and destroyed by wildfires in California, according to the American Association of State Foresters. The fire season typically ends in late October and early November with smoke clearing by January and February.

The dry conditions that have accompanied the dry weather have given the fires some leeway. Firefighters believe their crews have been able to contain fires due to poor snowpack, which allows fire to spread more efficiently.

The new research shows that the increased fire suppression is reducing the risk of fire deaths on California's massive forests. The new paper was published Tuesday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

"The ability to have this kind of control over fire means less carbon emissions associated with fires and increases overall fire survivability," said Andrew Steffen, a professor in California State University, Long Beach's College of Forestry, with a research team from Cornell University, New York.

The paper's authors argue that this finding can explain why the state's forests are in a better state than other areas of the nation when it comes to carbon pollution, while wildfires still produce carbon dioxide emissions that are high compared to previous years.

"If our forests are being destroyed in a cost-effective and efficient manner we can't avoid reducing carbon emissions. ⦠It's going to help to reduce fire fatalities," Steffen said.

The paper's authors have spent the past year mapping the carbon footprint of many of California's public land management programs through climate models built into the state's climate model program. They found that carbon emissions from California's timber and timber products programs are about two times that of other states that produce and use these fuels.

Fire suppression is used by forest management officials in 21 areas that use public lands for wildfire management. In some areas, such as the central and south parts of southern California, these are the largest management areas for wildfires.

The paper's authors looked at carbon emissions from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which manages these management areas. In the Central Valley, they identified two major management areas: the Santa Clara Valley Fire Protection District, and the Yuba National Forest Fire Protection District. They found that in the Central Valley the two areas burned a similar amount of carbon and released similar amounts of CO2, although the area that burned more carbon produced a large amount of other fuels.

These findings highlight the increasing power of carbon offsets to reduce carbon emissions, Steffen said. They can be used at home and can be done as part of the federal tax credits, said study co-author Jennifer McLeod, a research associate at Cornell's Department of Civil, Environmental and Indigenous Science.

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Govt gets please explain over roads funding for 2018. pic.twitter.com/JbDfMv3R9S â Jonathan Allen (@J_Allen16) March 17, 2017

According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. has no road funding for 2018, despite President Trump promising voters there would be "no new road spending on roads."

The Trump administration plans to fund the "National Highway and Transportation Safety Administration", also known as NHTSA, through "appropriations from the discretionary account," a separate account for the Highway Trust Fund.

But there are also other funding sources that are available. The Transportation Trust Fund is one of the largest moneymaking sources for all federal programs, according to budget experts. Since there are so many separate sources that pay a huge chunk of the federal budget, lawmakers can avoid creating a new fund. And even the government can't be shut down until lawmakers pass a budget, according to budget experts.

So if your town doesn't have roads, then your town's state may have to start using the roads for funding, either by taxing citizens or by using their existing roads. That's why transportation advocates such as Transportation for America have pushed for a "state highway authority", such as the one proposed for Texas that could tax residents to help fix roads.

If Texas goes through with the state highway authority, then states with high and stagnant populations would likely use state highways, while a smaller state like Mississippi may pass through on their own highways.

But according to Ryan Bostock, a policy advisor and managing director of the law firm Baker Botts, if these states choose to use their state highways, they would need to pass a special law that allows them to do so.

"State-controlled highways have two rules: first, they're not the state's property, and second, there must be a certain distance between these states' transportation systems," Bostock told ThinkProgress. "You can't set a state-controlled highway aside for one place and claim that it's not for another place."

The U.S. Transportation Secretary should clarify how it funds and plans for transportation funding to reduce unnecessary spending. In general, he or she should also clarify who is responsible for establishing funding levels, and set a way to set up a federal highway trust fund.

The current law is outdated and confusing, and the American taxpayer should have no reason for not having roads funded and funded fairly.

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