[NotSammyHagar]

And #4 almost 50% of the land is under federal control and thus California state govt has very limited influence and ability to ask for burning that.

[dragonwriter]

> And #4 almost 50% of the land is under federal control

Over 50% of forest land in the state, but almost 50% of the total land area of the state.

This is fairly common in the West and wildly different from the situation outside of the West.