I used to attend a private school bordering RMNP where we did a lot of outreach work with the park and surrounding community. Including, a significant amount of

I used to attend a private school bordering RMNP where we did a lot of outreach work with the park and surrounding community. Including, a significant amount of wildfire mitigation work. I couldn't agree more with your statements. Wildfire mitigation is extremely labor-intensive and -- in the bigger picture -- not very useful. Controlled burning in a 'healthy' ecosystem can have a much greater positive impact. I get really upset by the persistent culture of 'environmental do-gooders' that have no clue how biological ecosystems work. Such people put way too much value on (animal and plant) life and conveniently ignore the limitations of sustainability in natural ecosystems. I don't really have an answer to fix it. The problem isn't that we don't have the ability to mitigate massive natural disasters. It's that people can't see beyond their vanity enough to realize that natural environments don't exist to perpetuate life. 'Healthy' ecosystems have constant cycles of destruction and renewal. Our influence has been the greatest negative influence on that process.