[selftest]

Controlled burns need to come back with much more regularity and aggressive practices. Hard to do when many of these areas are close to suburbs. Even as late as the early 2000's I remember many controlled burns happening in Southern California, but it obviously wasn't enough because vast areas would still burn every few years. Now it's seemingly every year or even multiple times a year. We're never going to catch up with prevention unless we actively burn/cut vast swathes of land... Like probably hundreds of thousands of acres. It's probably naive to think that will happen in a short enough timespan to actually impact current conditions, though we can hope.