[Carry_Okie]

I am certain that private losses were lower. That does not mean that they have good forests from a total perspective. They tend to grow small, monocultured, even-aged trees very rapidly, producing relatively poor quality material. The reason for the policy is that they don't market the total range of benefits forests provide. Smaller landowners might actually be more competitive in that more management-intensive business.

[Looking for Diogenes]

While it does not provide statistics, this Reuters article does describe some of the attitudes of the timber companies about fire.

Timber industry unscorched by recent fires