The forests were logged previously. Then allowed to go fallow. the natural progression of fire was also tampered with resulting in extremely high fuel loads. We also have invasive species (bark beetles) imported from abroad (an unfortunate fact of modern life) killing trees and adding to the high fuel loads.
The forests in and around modern life will not manage themselves, just as wildlife populations will not manage themselves. You and I would both like to live in a more naturally managed state (small s) but that is not reality. You seem to have an overly simplistic outlook on how you would like things to be, I would like that too but it is just not reality.
Okay, then we just build the same homes near forests with the same designs we have in non forested areas.
We’ll continue to see 500 homes go up in smoke. Then we’ll see folks come here talking about others who are too simple to grasp what they are selling.
I’m not saying that some forestation precautions wouldn’t be reasoned, but I’m not blaming all this on forestation management by a long shot.
Seems to me we mismanage so many things, and then try to pin it on forestation management. No, we should never have implemented policies that allowed those beetles in.
We should never have allowed building codes in those areas to ignore the threat of fire.
And explain to me how a beetle infested tree causes all this?
Healthy trees combust too. The healthy pine tree has pine needles that go up like an ignited Christmas tree.
Some of this is just mindless blather.