Many environments benefit from, and even require, periodic wildfires.
Florida scrub post-fire Fire prevention is particularly bad because over time forests and other wild lands become clogged with dense growth. The fuel load on the ground builds and builds. The logging industries have argued that because of this, they should be allowed to log old, overgrown forests. This is not effective because the trees they want for their mills are not the same as the ones that should be removed from the forests. The amount soil and habitat damage that results is chilling to behold.