Point taken.

For starts, I think the disproportionate congressionally appointed annual road and timber sale budget given to federal forest management agencies should be invested instead in understory removals and prescribed burning in crucial areas like highways and logging road mainlines. This would create more local jobs in rural areas than logging typically does.

Apart from agency budget reallocation to help reduce landscape level forest fires, furnishing federal disaster assistance funding for fires may simply encourage wasting more money on often futile fire fighting.

I lived inside the 500,000 acre Biscuit Fire and personally witnessed much of the $30,000,000 suppression effort, mostly to no avail. It was the Fall rains that extinguished Biscuit, as it is so often with the big wildfires.