[hallway_monitor]

I’m not sure if these fires are correlated with the staff reductions in BLM. In the interview with a resident she doesn’t mention anything about that, just that last year was very wet which provided a lot of fuel and this hot dry spring has turned it into a tinder box.

[jedberg]

BLM provides fire lookout services that were severely cut. They also perform prescribed burns, which they no longer have staff and budget for, which would have reduced the dry grass.