> The primary cause of "giant fires" is in fact piss poor forest management, egged on by other factors. Controlled, planned, prescribed, forest fires are necess

> The primary cause of "giant fires" is in fact piss poor forest management, egged on by other factors. Controlled, planned, prescribed, forest fires are necessary to replace the natural processes that humans have interfered with. The problem is that the only long-term answer is to simply let things burn. You cannot controlled burn the vast amounts of areas that need to burn. I mean, maybe you could, but it would take a VAST amount of money that nobody seems willing to throw around. There is a LOT of land out West in the US. The problem is that once a fire starts, a lot of very loud voices want it put out. And the crying victims play really well on TV. And so, everything gets into "We must do something!" mode.