If the Sierra Club lawyers would stop filing lawsuits with weak, emotional judges...
then the USFS and BLM would be allowed to grant allotments to lumber mills who would environmentally harvest the dead trees while they still have some economic value.
This would provide good jobs to rural communities and families...
This would be a revenue source for the USFS...
The forest would be healthier...
Elk, deer...prefer open spaces with grass to eat . Their first choice is not bark from trees.
Eagles, hawks...like open spaces to see and catch their dinner, too.
Small fires would not balloon into major massive explosions because logging would have created fire breaks and roads for access for the fire fighter's equipment...
These massive fires cause air pollution, water pollution, soil destruction...
Crisis on our National Forests: Reducing the Threat of Catastrophic Wildfire [San Bernardino Fires]
Once again people apply thinking to more northern forests to the chaparral around LA, where it doesn't apply much.
In Southern California (except perhaps in the higher mountain forests) these "forests" are of zero economic value. There are no lumber companies desperate to come in and cut down chaparral that are being blocked by rabid environmentalists.
It costs money to clear out these trees and brush - there's no way to make money off it.
Next time someone gets burned out by a fire, they should check the area to see if a lawsuit prevented the authorities for protecting an area...and then sue the heck out of the people who sued.