I don't have a stake in the broader fight, but note that severe fires often leave extra fuel in their wake. (It is a surprising fact, to me at least.) This is b

I don't have a stake in the broader fight, but note that severe fires often leave extra fuel in their wake. (It is a surprising fact, to me at least.) This is because 1) live tree trunks don't burn in severe fires, they leave behind dead trunks (which do burn next time) and 2) the ground cover that comes up will be more massive than the ground cover that used to be there.