In times before the white men came the CA Indians well knew how to manage forests by using controlled burns. Since then the technology has vastly improved on how to implement their discovery, but the basic discovery—remove the fuel before it combusts destroying everything its path— hasn’t. Now we have bulldozers, chain saws, heavy duty trucks, and brush cutters to do the work instead of controlled burns. Equally important, the removed biomass can be very effectively used to produce numerous forest products, with whatever remaining waste there is being burned to produce electric power. That way everybody wins. There’s vastly less destruction, vastly less money spent on firefighting, and vastly reduced carbon emission since only the waste, instead of everything, will be burned. And, BTW, all sorts of well paying jobs will be created without spending any taxpayer money.
CA knows all that. They just don’t care. Obedience to the Leftist Ideology is far far more important.