> the ample dry fuel, Of the contributors, this is the most significant. Remove the excess fuel and the fires are mitigated. Winds are irrelevant if there’s no

> the ample dry fuel, Of the contributors, this is the most significant. Remove the excess fuel and the fires are mitigated. Winds are irrelevant if there’s nothing to burn. Bottom line, the best that can be said about the contribution of climate change is that there’s correlation. The decades of mismanagement were significant. That is, even without climate change these forests would be danger waiting to happen.