Fires are caused by forest mismanagement!
The enviros had a long history of “saving” trees.
Now, there are too many trees and lots of debris in forests.
A spark and voila, forest fire!
Healthy, live trees are hard to put on fire, and if they are spaced properly, fire cannot spread. But tell it to the tree huggers!
As a matter of fact, many fires now are affecting protected wilderness’s and National Parks.
Stop making sense.
When my Dad, a forestry prof, got his job at a local university which has a large on-main-campus woods (one of the university’s most notable features), as he had a degree in Forest Management, well, guess what became one of his responsibilities? Except... the greenie influence prevented him from actually managing the woods at all effectively. He would grumble about it being dangerous (dead branches and trees), a fire risk, and “the greatest stand of poison ivy in the country”. Eventually, somebody with more influence nearly got clonked by a large falling branch and the University big-wigs realized they had serious liability issues to contend with. The woods got (mostly) cleaned up...