Environmental Catastrophe – Can California play catch-up on forest management to prevent future disastrous wildfires?

California is grappling with the counterintuitive dilemma of too many trees, packed too closely together, robbed of the space they need to thrive—and with how to clear out more than 100 million dead trees, felled by drought or insects, that provide tinder for the next infernos.  At stake is nothing less than life, property, air quality and the lands that hold most of California’s water. A state commission recently prescribed radical changes to address what it terms the “neglect” of California’s largest forests.  Read more:  https://www.newsreview.com/chico/environmental-catastrophe/content?oid=26106279