Good article from @amonthei about the obstacles to scaling-up prescribed fire in the West. We do get a lot of good burning done during wildfires, but this is made very difficult by mixed forestland ownership, WUI, smoke, and adverse weather. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/10/prescribed-burns-are-failing/616889/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...
When wildfires burn in forestland with mixed ownership, tension between State vs Federal fire managers can be extreme. The Feds often choose a & #39;big-box& #39; strategy with major burning operations while the State is more likely to & #39;go direct& #39;.
One of Cal Fire& #39;s original charters was to protect industrial timberlands from wildfire losses. Fire behavior is often more extreme in recently-logged areas, and a fire burning across mixed ownership often has lower fire severities on the unlogged or logged-long-ago public lands.