There are numerous practices learned over the past 125 years to prevent the massive forest fires that used to take numerous lives. We have relied too much on fire fighting & forgot about applying other techniques that were developed many decades ago.

In BC right now we at dealing with the results of a very ignorant NDP provincial gov't decision made years ago.  Some city decision makers tried to defy Mother Nature in Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park, Natural fires were extinguished within the park, no managed burns took place, and heaven forbid that we log mature pine in a provincial park. Mature pine forests burn as part of the natural cycle.

Mother Nature sent in the pine beetle to kill the mature forest and this scourge has killed hundreds of square miles of forest in the region that is now burning. Accessible dead trees were logged several years. The long dead trees on the ridge lines are almost like gasoline. These fires will rage until the rain (or snow) comes in the fall.