> We can actively manage our forests. Most of the fires in CA are not forest fires. Most of the atmospheric CO2 contributions are from what most refer to as "

> We can actively manage our forests. Most of the fires in CA are not forest fires. Most of the atmospheric CO2 contributions are from what most refer to as "brush" fires. Take several mountains and valleys covered with dry vegetation of all types (yes, trees included) and burn them. That's what we have here. Yes, forest management is important. Difficult, and maybe even practically impossible, yet important. However, this will not have the effect most commenters on this thread seem to think it will. Brush fires are nearly impossible to control. The best we can do is protect property and let them have their way with the hills an valleys they consume. I live in this area. My neighborhood has been affected by and even surrounded by brush fires multiple times. I know how they fight them. You can't control them. If the winds are blowing in the wrong direction there's almost nothing you can do to prevent a catastrophe. I have seen half a dozen air-dropping helicopters, a couple of Canadian fire fighting aircraft and a couple of DC-10's (or whatever they are) mount a combined attack on a massive brush fire north of my town multiple times in the decades I have lived here. All they can hope to do is protect property when the conditions allow. Nothing more. Forest management is a very small part of the problem (or solution, depending on your take on the matter). Don't ask what I think the solution might be. I don't think anyone knows. It's like asking how to plug a volcano or stop a hurricane. Sometimes you have to accept that things are the way they are and we just don't have the power to control any of it.