These areas are loaded with grasses, berries, saplings of every type, wildflowers and other plants essential for a large and diverse population of animals and birds. If lightning didn't burn enough of it down, they'd torch it to clear the way for the plants the animals they wanted to hunt to eat. We have found a better way to provide for the animals. We log it, and use the wood to make toilet paper, computer paper, wall paper, check paper, cardboard, cups, paper plates, newspaper, plywood, oil filters, lumber, veneer, and a whole lot more. The wood that isn't a high enough quality for any of these uses is chipped and burned to produce electricity.
Nothing is wasted any more.
Even the ash from the electric plants is given to farmers to buffer the soil instead of using lime. The ultimate in conservation. The only thing I wish is for loggers to leave a little brush pile, perhaps the limbs and tops from a couple of trees heaped up every acre or so to give the rabbits and partridge a little cover. This involves usually putting a culvert in a small stream and dozing up some gravel or laying in some logs and dirt to make a road over it. The road ends up creating a little dam, often beavers come in and plug the culvert, in no time you have more wetlands than ever.