Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke joined President Donald Trump’s blame game over the California wildfires on Sunday, faulting “radical environmentalists” for somehow preventing forest management.
In a Breitbart interview, Zinke said that “it’s not time for finger-pointing.”
“We know the problem,” he continued.”It’s been years of neglect, and in many cases it’s been these radical environmentalists that want nature to take its course.”
“I will lay this on the foot of those environmental radicals that have prevented us from managing the forests for years, and you know what, this is on them,” he added.
According to the Los Angeles Times, experts agree that Trump and Zinke’s blame of forest mismanagement is misplaced, as the area where the fire broke out was not heavily timbered, but quickly leapt onto nearby buildings.
