What's the point of sending him to jail and make a ward of the state? Is he an idiot? Sure. Do forests burn? Yeah. Just ban him from public lands and fine him.

What's the point of sending him to jail and make a ward of the state? Is he an idiot? Sure. Do forests burn? Yeah. Just ban him from public lands and fine him. Fire is a natural part of the landscape in the west. You should learn to appreciate it because our policy of putting out fires for aesthetic and logging reasons has made our whole landscape a powder keg.