Butte County's implementation of the regs, including their insane 6,000 acre limit: https://www.arb.ca.gov/drdb/but/curhtml/r300.pdf There are a very limited number of days mainly in spring where CARB allows the fire (windy enough) but while it is still safe (not too windy or unpredictable), and there are more than a million acres that might need burning
The results of the policy: https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3798 This report greatly softpeddles the problem which is insane "air quality" regulations. They say "The VMP treated 17,500 acres with prescribed burns in 2017, somewhat more than the average of approximately 13,000 acres treated per year since 1999. This represents a decrease from about 30,000 acres treated per year from 1982 through 1998. This decrease is due to several factors, including (1) an increase in the amount of planning and documentation required for prescribed burns due to stricter air quality regulations..."
No excuse.
I am a former USFS wildland firefighter I know it is true