The fires on the west side were huge and large. The cycle is the fuel builds up and it gets to a point and then it all burns and replaces itself. In this day and age, what would happen if we had a 1,546 square mile fire? People are not going to accept that--they might think it's good until it happens, and then they aren't. That's like burning from Redmond all the way to Salem or the Coast Range. That's how big that is. So our choices are to let it burn or to do something in advance of the fire--spend some money and get some products out, do a little thinning.
The Siuslaw, for one, is headed for that type of thing again. The trees are getting so thick. You don't do anything: there's no roads--when it catches on fire, it's going to burn.
The last paragraph above describes what basically every government forest in Oregon has become due to the Green Jihadist, the miserable Watermelons since 1993. The trees are getting thick with no removal of trees or brush. There are no roads. So when they catch on fire, it's boom and they are often up to 10 to 20,000 acres of fast burn with nothing that can be done except try to contain them on the perimeters.
Will Oregon see one of these vast 1,546 square mile fires?
If not this year, an even bigger is coming soon to Oregon thanks to the Watermelons who have created these death zones with their anti American forest/tree hugging insanity. Time to lock the insane ones up and remove them from where they can hurt us.