[Post Toasties]

I believe that, until the 1970's the Forestry Service allowed culling of underbrush, overmature trees and dead timber. It's the envirofascists who put a stop to most of that with the result that the intensity of forest fires have increased to the point where ecosystems have much more trouble reestablishing themselves.

[virgil]

I seem to remember that during the Bush I administration, the evirowackos blamed Bush's Interior Secretary James Watt for allowing the forests to burn. Go figure.