BLM = Bureau of Land Management, an agency charged with management of Federal land. Especially in forested and grazing lands in the Rocky Mountain states.
Up until the 90’s, used to see commercial logging as well as individuals gleaning out the deadfall or trash trees for firewood on both BLM and Forest “Service” land.
EcoNazis filed a bunch of suits to “protect the environment” that killed commercial logging (among others), it became fashionable to declare everything in sight a Wilderness Area, the bureaucrats in BLM and NFS went from managing to controlling and along with closing out all those rich villainous businesses, the public got shut out of their ability to go cut firewood.
So no loggers go in to harvest trees, nobody cleans up the slash n’ trash for their home woodpile and the woods just stand there and get clogged up with all that overgrowth and deadfall until there’s a lightning strike and the whole place burns right down to below root lines.
I’d say that’s fairly screwed up.
Good description.
The Prescott national forest was ruined by those aholes.
There was a bark beetle infestation and they would not clear the infected trees.
Soon the entire forest has dead.
A tinderbox.