[RonF]

What do you think makes more sense, saving thousands of human lives and homes, thus preventing the increase of insurance premiums, or allowing numerous dead and rotting trees to create a virtual tinder box?

Since when are the timber companies going to clear away dead and rotting trees? They're going to cut down live standing trees and leave the unsalable crap sitting right where it is now.

[AuntB]

I believe you are wrong. The way the timber industry...including entire communities have been destroyed, they will take what they can get.