[btilly]

There are fires, and there are megafires. They are NOT the same.

The Western landscapes are evolved for regular normal fires. But decades of fire suppression have left us with a massive amount of fuel, so now fires come with a heat and size that the landscape is not evolved to handle. So, for example, trees with thick bark designed to survive fires, instead succumb to the intense heat and burn.

Yes, we need to get back to having regular fires. But we also need to end the artificially created danger of megafires.