That depends on where you are talking about. In SoCal with the Mediterranean climate and relatively few forests, it would probably work. Brush clearance is alre

That depends on where you are talking about. In SoCal with the Mediterranean climate and relatively few forests, it would probably work. Brush clearance is already a thing and it’s possible to step it up a lot more and enforce on absentee land owners that don’t do it. NorCal with the thick forests, you’d need to clear cut so much, you’d be irreversibly altering the landscape and will probably get other bad things for it, such as erosion and landslides. The vegetation will also try to grow back aggressively (NorCal is a lot wetter than SoCal). So you’d end up doing this over and over again. It’s unlikely to be economical.