If you're interested in this topic (and if you live in California, you probably should be), I recommend reading reports like this one from a California State po

If you're interested in this topic (and if you live in California, you probably should be), I recommend reading reports like this one from a California State policy arm: https://lhc.ca.gov/report/fire-mountain-rethinking-forest-management-sierra-nevada https://lhc.ca.gov/report/fire-mountain-rethinking-forest-ma... It'll take you through a better-than-surface understanding of the problem history and how we got here, contributing factors, potential solutions, and political/social obstacles.