1. Use prison crews and illegal aliens awaiting deportation or court dates to do the clearing. It would provide exercise for the inmates and reduce costs, and allow authorities to keep an eye on the illegals to ensure they make their court appearances.
2. Grind the underbrush into mulch and sell it.
3. Use Unicorns to move the much to market. Or just have inmates and liberal volunteers carry the mulch to market. Again, exercise and reduced costs.
4. Use the cash proceeds to fund various California spending programs. That way the entire project becomes essential and can't be eliminated.
Of course, pay me a nominal consulting fee for developing the idea.
After all, just like unicorn poop, underbrush is a renewable resource and should be put to good use.
You will be stopped by the Sierra Club for endangering the environment, let it burn.
We get it turn it over to private enterprize eget it out of the hands of government the smartest thing we could ever do