I grew up in Northern California, generally within an hours radius of Sacramento. I remember watching the sky as a kid, and then later as a young adult I got in to photography. The skies were blue. Beautiful blue. The clouds were beautiful white, and looked like clouds, when we had them.
When I left Cali in 2015 I hadn't seen a blue sky in at least 4 years. I worked outside and all summer, when the sky should have been a beautiful blue (we didn't have rain in the summer) and I would watch as the morning sky started out blue, but the planes started laying their web until it was nothing but haze.
Where I moved they have monsoons, rain in the summer, something I never knew happened. They spay here, but way less. I've seen blue skies again. It has been nice. It is so obvious when a real cloud shows up.
I've heard that the Fed sprays the whole country, and each state either sprays too or doesn't. California sprays. If you see blue skies and real clouds in those blue skies your state likely doesn't add to the spraying, it's only the Fed.
Or they are just being practical. You can get probably 70% of Idaho's population in one sweep across the south, the rest of us are flung pretty far and wide. The number of people sprayed per pound of poison used goes WAY down if you leave the Boise area. They hit us once in a while but not like down there.
Agreed the more populated areas are hit harder, but when I first started looking in to it I was seeing people up in Redding concerned because their trees were dying and what not. The had the soil tested and there were elevated levels of Aluminum and think Barium. They were getting the shit sprayed out of them, and Redding is the biggest city up that far, and it's not big. The towns are not real big once you go above Sacramento on the East and Santa Rosa on the West. It's pretty rural up there.
But I also believe they were engineering the drought.
Yeah, and some of these "forest fires" are highly suspicious.
"Wild fire" in Santa Rosa... Don't get me started