A few years ago I did some internet research wondering why the forest fires in the west were so bad, whereas in Georgia and other places in the SE weren’t.
They USED to be bad in the SE. But now the forests in the SE are managed so much (I think much of it is private land) that they have much better practices (more like crops) so they can harvest more and rarely have fires anymore.
Of course out west we still have the fires in the summer. Obviously the local climates are a factor, but a huge part of it is how the forests get managed.
“a huge part of it is how the forests get managed”
Indeed. It seems that the most liberal states with the most extreme anti-management practices have the worst fires. Just a qualitative observation.