I own forest land in the PNW, and my wife and I have placed around 15 acres of oak woodland into conservation over the past 5 years, which involved a lot of res

I own forest land in the PNW, and my wife and I have placed around 15 acres of oak woodland into conservation over the past 5 years, which involved a lot of restoration work which was funded both by ourselves and with grant money through NRCS. One of the reasons we decided to buy land in the first place was because of Climate Change, and a desire to get hands on in doing something – even if at a small scale. We've learned a lot in the process – there's no substitute for 'doing'. I'm chiming in because I feel like this experience has given me a fairly deep perspective on the matter. Fire prevention is on the minds of everyone. Even the most conservative farmers I know are in their own way environmentalists. That's the interesting thing about getting out into the country and off the internet is that you meet a lot of people, and you find common interests – even if you disagree on a lot of stuff. The issue is, this stuff is expensive. You can mow, do manual limbing of trees to prevent 'ladder fires', you can get goats, you can try converting over to ecosystems that are more fire resilient, create smarter development plans and keep structures 100' away from dry woodland, etc. But all of that costs time and money. There are grants, yes, but even that isn't available to everyone, and even that takes time. Because the Climate is become more chaotic, you end up with intense rain fall in the cooler months, leading to explosive growth of brush that is dry fuel/tinder by the end of the long hot summers. And because of the way communities are being planned and developed – closer and deeper into the wild/urban interface – fires become more 'destructive' in terms of property and loss of life. Climate change is a systemic problem. There's no one thing you can point to and say, change this and it will fix the problem. Except maybe drastically reducing the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Lastly, I'm a huge fan of controlled burns. But they're not without risk, and the liability of conducting them is largely than the people seem to realize. We had an agricultural burn set of a tree 30' away during a rainstorm, in the deepest part of burn season, during extremely high humidity. Why? Because the summer had been freakishly hot. According to the fire department, it was a happening a lot. It's getting harder and harder to safely use fire as a preventative measure in a lot of areas. Anyway, just some perspective from someone who's actually been living this.