The real fix for the problem is to clear brush, thin trees so they will be healthy...when trees are crowded they don’t grow right- think toothpicks right next to each other which leads to disease and insect infestation. When a fire happens it is not a normal fire with the excess brush and sick trees for fuel...it becomes an inferno. The environmental groups sue the government and when judges side with them they are in charge of managing public lands instead of agencies that are supposed to. This is not just an issue in CA it is throughout the SW and the reason we have inferno fires now.
California has the added issue that they got state laws changed too so now there are many regulations on private property owners as to if they are allowed to clear brush and how much they are allowed to clear on their own property. So in CA it is both public and private land that is a fire hazard.
Socialists can’t manage land any better than they do other things. After the last (or one recent) fire was blamed on utility company instead of the socialists bad land management the utility company said well we will shut of the power when fire danger is high.
There’s a huge effort underway here in North Idaho to thin out the forests so the trees are spaced 20 - 30 feet apart. That way they grow taller and stronger — and the fires don’t reach the crowns. The fires are limited to the underbrush.
As I write, big slash piles are being burned around us because the weather turned cool and damp. Hiking through the forests around here, you often see these enormous slash piles ready for burning. This is not just on the utility rights-of-way, but throughout the national forests.