[Southack]

We had routine forest fires each Summer here in Alabama until the 1950’s when we started implementing scientific forest management (e.g. cutting dead trees, building logging roads in strategic locations, etc.).

Now you seldom if ever hear of a forest fire in Alabama (a woodland state).

...more liberal states can’t say the same thing.

[blam]

"Now you seldom if ever hear of a forest fire in Alabama (a woodland state)."

Alabama: 73% forested and growing at the rate of one million acres a year.

I spent a lot of time in Tahoe in the late 60's, early 70's.