....And it'll be blamed on Global Warming caused by the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton cabal.
Science has been the exception in the Forestry Department since the end of the '70's. The brainwashing has worked. Now perfectly rational people believe that trees will live forever if humans would only leave them alone.
My husband is a former Hotshot who fought in Yellowstone. He lost a lot of people that he knew there. I don't know how to undo so many years of propaganda. Even the Weather Channel was gratuitously selling Global Warming as the root cause of every single natural problem on Earth.
Of course we could drastically reduce wildfires if we were allowed to clear cut dead sections of forrest, and stop this stupid policy of replanting 2 trees for everyone we cut down. Nature has already created a way to dispense seeds and create new growth.