The feds should never be allowed to manage land or wildlife, in my opinion. They do nothing but destroy. The same thing happened in California in 2003, and many other states where wildfires have destroyed the forests these agencies are supposedly managing.
Touring the area, Jonathan Brooks, tribal forest manager for the White Mountain Apache Tribe, said forest-management strategies unhindered by environmental litigation and drawn-out federal government processes helped check the wildfire here. For decades, the tribe has cleared young trees, logged larger trees and burned underbrush to replicate the natural burn-and-growth cycle of the Ponderosa pine forest. Brooks said that made it easy for firefighters to create a backfire here to deprive the approaching Wallow Fire of fuel. Had this area not been thinned, logged, prescribe-burned, we wouldnt have been able to do a burnout operation here so the fire wouldve been able to come through here unchecked, he said.
The feds currently manage based on preservation and humans=evil. By law, they are supposed to manage for multiple use, but they ignore the law...and Congress turns a blind eye.