[HartleyMBaldwin]

So there clearly are things that could be done to extinguish and even prevent the fires: construct the necessary infrastructure and actively manage the forests.

That would certainly be possible, with enough money and enough labor. Probably millions of workers and trillions of dollars. There is a LOT of forest in Canada.

And there were catastrophic wildfires long before the U.S. Forest Service began actively suppressing fires. Read about the Peshtigo fire of 1871, decades before there was any USFS.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Wildfires are a natural part of the ecology. There is an ecological progression after a wildfire. Without wildfires, pine forests would gradually be replaced by hardwood forests. There are species that thrive after a forest fire.

https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/ecological-succession-after-a-forest-fire/

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” trillions of dollars”

Really ....... hmmmmm

Send me in with a hot dog ...
works when I go camping .... but I will need the trillion dollars

..... Bad management takes it’s toll.
it’s never cheaper to not do what needs to be done.