>Or are these environments just too different? the most important factor in public perception of those events - domestic politics (and thus resulting media pr

>Or are these environments just too different? the most important factor in public perception of those events - domestic politics (and thus resulting media propaganda spin in particular) - are very different. The main real factor is the same in both cases though - it is climate change, and whether too much or too little of logging, whether active fire suppression is practiced or not is just a noise compare to the ground-shifting effects of the climate change. In either case giving current climate there should be different type forest than what is there now - the forest just hasn't been able to adjust naturally that fast. Thus the various ways of catastrophic adjustment including by fires and die-offs.