Same thing is happening in forests throughout the U.S.
Due to libs refusal to allow forests to be thinned and have their floors cleaned of dead trees and mulch our fires will be larger and more frequent.
Flagstaff is a case in point.
Way too many trees per acre for a healthy forest and feet of mulch of dead matter piling up.
When trees die, the dead wood fills the forest floor.
That is like the U.S. Forest Service passing regulatory law that when a person dies in the city, we just step over the accumulating corpses.
I see big efforts all over North Idaho to clear out the undergrowth. Huge piles of it created all summer and covered with tarps to keep it dry. Then it’s burned in the early winter.
There’s a project called “Honey Badger” that is working to improve forest health from Coeur d’Alene north to Lake Pend Oreille. A major part of the effort is to clear out the decades of undergrowth accumulation.