That’s par for the course in California. So many of their massive fires have been been allowed to get so big because they can’t understand basic force management. Gotta protect a hypothetical mouse running in the forest, meanwhile tens of thousands of acres burned down.
Confirms what I have often heard about Forestry management. I have read some several articles about how it can be largely improved, but nodody in control seems to be interested.
In most of California forest management is simple, they lack the swamps and marshes that make forest management difficult in Florida to Virginian. Only the most rugged of mountain ranges are inaccessible. Selective logging and thinning, construction of fire breaks is simple and self funding while providing the cash to build extensive timber and fire road access.