The fires are a result of criminally poor forestry management. Eschewing controlled burns and the fetish of putting out every single fire of natural origin has led to an unnatural buildup of fuel on the forest floor.
And thus wildfires.
Bill Clinton’s land management rules and other liberal policies paved the way for future debilitating wildfires.. ~ fire expert Bob Zybach warned of potential disastrous wildfires shortly after Clinton signed a slate of rules that drastically reduced logging and roads on federal lands in the mid-1990s..
https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/13/california-oregon-wildfires-land-management-climate-change/
How aboutexchewing logging?