That’s simply not true. Most of this area is covered with natural chaparral. That wasn’t planted by anyone.
Chaparral? Chaparral grows all over deserts...lol
It’s absolutely true.
Don’t believe me? Turn off your water supply for about 1 year and report back.
And all that chaparral was designed to burn naturally and periodically, before Europeans even came there the LA Basin was called valley of the smokes by the native population.