'BradCast' 9/20/2021 (Guest: Dr. Christy Brigham, chief science officer at Sequoia and Kings Canyon Nat'l Parks)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Massive wildfires are encroaching on the giant sequoias of Sequoia National Park - - the world's oldest and largest trees, located in the Sierra Nevada mountains north of Los Angeles. DR. CHRISTY BRIGHAM, Chief of resources management and science at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, explains ongoing firefighting efforts to save the iconic trees from massive wildfires that have scorched hundreds of square miles in the forest, how climate change is 'at the root of this problem,' and what the public can do going forward to ensure policies and actions are enacted to protect our national forests and public lands from the ravages of climate change amid historic heat and drought in the western U.S.\\xa0 Also today:\\xa0 The U.S. will ease pandemic travel restrictions on foreign visitors by mandating vaccines and proof of a negative COVID test.\\xa0 Pfizer has approved use of its COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 4 to 11, and will seek FDA approval. California now has the lowest COVID infection rate in the nation, and is creating jobs at three times the national rate - - exposing the lies of Republicans' ill-fated, costly attempt to recall CA's popular Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.\\xa0 The corporate media should stop calling Republicans and rightwingers 'conservative' after they forced tax-payers to spend millions to protect the U.S. Capitol from domestic terrorists during Trump's dumb, failed 'Justice for J6' rally over the weekend."