I am heading up to the Mogollon Rim on Monday for 1 cool month of camping and enjoying the Apache Sitgreaves forest. We will camp about 5 miles from the extreme burn edge of the fire that in 199? burned 532,000 acres of prime Ponderosa Pine. I would love to see a back burn of about 50 acres with a tree hugging SOB tied to the top of each tree. Their screams would be music to my ears!
Would be a small retribution for those lost in the original fire.
Controlled burns are a good thing. I own about 120 AC of good forest land in East Texas with mostly pines and some hardwoods. We do cuts every 8 or so years and controlled burns to get rid of the dead underbrush. Goes a LONG way to prevent wildfires.