B.S.
California has gone through 10,000 years and more of drought cycles followed by wetter cycles, back and forth, often in 100 year plus periods in each cycle, and the great Sierra Nevada conifers have survived. The alarmists CONTINUUALY fail to believe in Life’s ability to adapt to change, assuming, in error, than some present condition they find a species in, is required for the species to survive. Natural history shows they are usually wrong.
Fires...typically in September/October...in Kalifornia have occurred for thousands of years. Ditto in Australia.