California’s National Forests Are a Tinderbox Waiting to Explode

Fully 7 million of 9.8 million acres that are productive forest lands “not reserved” on California’s National Forests are in an overly dense condition. Continuing drought in California has, in part, led to a dramatic increase in catastrophic wildfires the past two years. Continuing litigation of mechanical thinning/fuels reduction projects on the National Forests has, [...]