“that fires could be stopped if forests were logged.”
Funny, just talked to a friend that is a chief faller on a fire line crew on the Ferguson fire in CA. He said that he has never seen so many beetle killed trees in his life-some dead for over two years. Said he was cutting one yesterday that before it had even started to come off the stump, broke and a good twenty feet broke off and came down near him.
He was calling me from the top of a ridge overlooking Yosemite Park. From there, he could tell that the whole side hill was full of dead beetle killed trees.
There are huge swaths of commercial tree growing operations in this country. They are well managed, of course. How many wildfires in commercial forests have you ever heard of? 50 years ago CA started telling people they couldn’t go into the forests and bring our firewood. The old timers said it was insanity and there would be massive wildfires. Guess what? They were right...and the idiots in CA blame global warming!!!