I live in the Willamete Valley where people have been fighting smoke from field burning for years, killing off the practice.
Fire is going to have to be more heavily reintroduced into the forest, making it a part of how different factors shape it. People are going to hate living with the smoke, but they will have to do it.
Silvaculture is made more expensive and fire could mean less board foot harvested per acre on the short-term with more fire cleaning out small, fast burning fuels.
I have been a wildlands forest firefighter and tree planter for years. I have worked on countless precription burns, (some of which caused massive complaints when the wind changed direction unexpectedly) and while some bile might be owed environmentalists over this as this piece pitches, it is more complicated an issue then this, with more people owning a piece of the blame then many people might be willing to owe up to in this heat of the moment. (No pun intended.