For example, the California Association of Realtors amended a property disclosure for to require that sellers disclose wildfire severity information about property in state responsibility areas under certain conditions. Thus there was no real economic incentive for landowners or developers to reduce their exposure to wildfire. That may change. And he's right. For if we can come together as communities over fire, it is a short transition to other stewardship issues, and toward seeing the role of fire in the whole ecosystem.
Smoke remains a serious and complex health issue.
Yet we are learning how to lessen its effects in populated areas. By reducing fuels in advance, when it is most advantageous, we reduce the amount of smoke that comes later in extreme fire behavior. Neither fire, nor the smoke that comes with it, respect political jurisdictions. Fire takes on the living ecosystem in all its complexity, in all its wholeness. And therefore so should we.