[dragnet2]

Uh, many of these fires are not even in "National Forests" and most of these current fires are not involving large trees, but hundreds of square miles of brush, in very rugged terrain, that grows every year.

I've posted this below several times.

Would you suggest sending in several hundred thousand people every summer to be airlifted into hundreds of square miles, into all these super rugged steep areas to cut the brush every year?

[Carry_Okie]

Uh, many of these fires are not even in "National Forests" and most of these current fires are not involving large trees, but hundreds of square miles of brush, in very rugged terrain, that grows every year.

Uh, I LIVE in the wildland suburban interface and have been controlling fuels on 200% slopes for eighteen years. You can tell the difference between our property and its surroundings from 20,000 feet.

Would you suggest sending in several hundred thousand people every summer to be airlifted into hundreds of square miles, into all these super rugged steep areas to cut the brush every year?

I do it myself. I've taken out two cords on steep slopes in the last week. Better is to manage the vegetative type. One can grow yerba santa, monkeyflower, buckeye, and elderberry in the same places as might otherwise grow ceanothus and manzanita. All of them are native, but the former group doesn't burn worth a damn. All it takes is commitment, money, time, and the willingness to risk my life to protect my land.