[Carry_Okie]

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?

Many of those hills used to be grazed and burned regularly, but the same people who never paid the owners for fuel management killed them with regulations.

[dragnet2]

No...There are many hundreds of square miles of rugged terrain where controlled burns are just not practical due to the inaccessibility etc etc. That's why you always hear about an area that hasn't burned in *years*...Many are just too remote, and inaccessible, not to mention, if you did a controlled burn in these type of areas, and it gets out of control, you can't get the resources in to fight it.

Bottom line is there is way too much remote, inaccessible rugged brush covered land, literally hundreds of square miles....And even in areas that get burned, it grows back every single year.

It's just the way it is.