[bray]

Exactly right and how many people suffered or died from lung issues during those massive fires?

The question we have now is do we manage the forests or do we worship them? Worshiping them has caused the forests to die and burn.

[palmer]

I think we need a combination of management strategies. Some places need a buffer of regular mowing. Others can be haversted. But others probably need to be allowed to burn, or burned with prescribed fire, mainly because they are too steep or remote to be harvested.

I think the problem got a lot worse with Jerry Brown. He openly bragged about what a great CO2 sink his forests were. Part of that was a lie. Old growth is not a sink. And part of that was wishful thinking, that it would never burn out of control and kill people.