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The main "forest management" that is needed is more prescribed burns.
But it's getting harder and harder to do prescribed burns, in part because so many people want to build vacation homes and shyt in the forest. How do you do a controlled burn when it might burn someone's house down? We've encroached far too much on the forests. But if we set more land aside protected from development (which would both allow better forest management AND reduce loss of property/life when wildfires did happen), everyone would bytch about their freedoms being restricted and property rights being lost.
On top of that, drought and climate change have reduced the available days that controlled burns can be done safely. The worse that drought and global warming get, the worse the fires are going to get, that's just a fact.
What are you going to do about those things?
Why California's Best Strategy Against Wildfire Is Hardly Ever Used | KQED
If Cali wanted to get serious about climate change they would focus on this instead of electric cars.