[MineralMan]

"Call me unorthodox, but the forests don't look so healthy when they're on FIRE."

Interesting photo. What you don't realize is that the fires in that photo are burning exclusively in brushland. There are no harvestable trees in any of the fires in the photo.

Now, the fires in San Bernardino County _are_ burning in some areas with pine trees, but those areas make up a minority of the acreage being burned.

Forestry doesn't come into the picture here, even those these are "National Forests." Your photo shows fires where there are no trees.

[p. henry]

The Cuyamaca Mountains, which are in San Diego County and which are currently burning, are forested and suffer from the infestation of the bark beetle

[Prime Choice]

Interesting photo. What you don't realize is that the fires in that photo are burning exclusively in brushland. There are no harvestable trees in any of the fires in the photo.

Still applies, I think, considering the opposition to brush-clearing.