To keep this short: I think a balance between what we do and what stop the spray wants to do is ok. Trees that excel on wet ground will be better fire breaks b

To keep this short: I think a balance between what we do and what stop the spray wants to do is ok. Trees that excel on wet ground will be better fire breaks because their fuel is higher in the tree and the ground is wet. Yeah that helps as a fire break but it is not some super power. In my area you will naturally get small clumps of large aspens and then a lot of small aspen bushes. Those smaller trees/bushes burn up like anything else and they help guide the fires to their more resistant big brothers. The fires happening around my city blew through a place I know well, it has a lot of aspen and swamps. The fire destroyed it all, maybe the aspen helped but not in a meaningful way. When the smoke clears maybe the picture will be different. It is not realistic to assume that if we let aspen do what it wishes that it will make fire breaks that are of real value. Aspen is like a weed and if you cut all the trees down in an area the aspen bushes start to take over. That being said, a diverse forest is always going to be a better forest.