Originally Posted by SoCal Jim
Yeah, my question about the non-closure of Humboldt-Toiyabe is more of what's practical or makes sense. If it somehow made sense to close every NF in California for a couple of weeks, why didn't it make sense to close the one just over the Nevada state line? It's not like there's a monster firewall there... Comes down to bureaucracy, as I see it. Oh well...

Because most of Humboldt-Toiyabe isn’t “just over the Nevada state line”. It reaches almost all the way to Utah. That’s over 300 miles from the state line. Should they have closed the entire state of Nevada because of fires in California? Would that be practical or make sense?