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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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What forest management policies? ;)
That could work for the skateboarders?

Well, I wonder how much forest management policies would help when the trees are dying because of drought.

Used to be that healthy trees can be protected by clearing away scrub brush and grasses that are the first to die of in low water conditions. It has gone beyond that now.

Once healthy trees are dying because of lack of water and, warmer winters are not keeping "pine beetles" and other parasites at bay. I have witnessed the massive, dead forests in British Columbia because a winter did not drop temperatures low enough to kill the pine beetle.

Forests here in California are suffering the same fate.

When these dying/dead trees are struck by lightening or man-induced forest fires, they have no protection. Rather than minor bark burn (which a healthy pine or redwood could endure), the whole tree goes up in flames. The intensity of these flames turns neighboring healthy trees into firewood, along with houses, businesses and outbuildings.

Leading up to the current disasters, forest management tried controlled burns but many of them got away from them. Further proof that forest management is secondary to climate management and, we all know where that is going.
 
Glad they got this ironed out in my lifetime.

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