First of all, you clearly have no idea that I've written an entire book dealing with this topic in detail. Had you even taken the time to check out my page, go to my site and read the reviews, your post would not have been so flippant. Thus my conclusion is that you are both opinionated and lazy regardless of how much you think you know. I am not going to spend much time educating you.
Second, you obviously haven't dealt with the aftermath of catastrophic fire, as I have on a small scale. You haven't witnessed the erosion and weed infestations common after such events. The latter is NOT reversible on a large scale and can be terribly destructive.
Third, you seem to prefer to believe the eco-drivel of groups funded by the tax-exempt foundations of corporate wealth with big investments at stake and the government agencies beholden to them laden with bureaucrats looking for a cause to milk.
Fourth, you ignore the opinions of those who have spent their lives in the forest believing your preferred cadre to be somehow interested only in its benefit. Such is hardly the case. Only if things are going bad does your gang of thugs gain the justification to socialize ever more private property. From what I've seen, the admitted disaster that is government land fits that description perfectly.
Finally, when a real disaster hits this country, one so big that an incompetent FEMA is easily overwhelmed, you probably expect those same rural landowners to care for you. They'll be gone. You and your craven, shallow, and ignorant ilk will have destroyed them with your covetousness. It could be different, but you don't care about them either.