I am no fan of the government beauracracy but this article is full of factual bits rolled into an emotionally biased ball of hyperbole aimed at making a subjective point that it is the fault of the federal government because it failed to stop an overwhealming force of nature
Force of nature? The same people who spend billions in firefighting allowed the fuel in that forest to develop to catastrophic levels. It's the same all over the country. They know better too, as the Cone Fire showed. It doesn't matter if it was Rodeo-Chediski, Los Alamos, or San Bernardino, in every case they were warned and in every case the Forest Service did nothing. In every case there are hearings with lots of experts telling them the same things. And in every case they cave to the leftist eco-freak agents of those with investments in selling timber from abroad. The top level reason is politics and money, while the agency staff celebrates a culture of institutional incompetence and goes back to collecting overtime on "firefighting." Over forty percent of the agency budget is for lawsuits, not management.
"Overwhelming force of nature"? Human nature, maybe.