What Can Be Done to Prevent These Catastrophic Wildfires

"Indigenous people didn’t have water bombing helicopters, so they burned the land on calm, cool winter days, in coordination with neighboring tribes, in small rotating patchworks to prevent catastrophic growth and spread. Bad fires could and did still occur, but people everywhere did whatever they could to prevent them and the fossil and historical record shows they were mostly successful. Everywhere except in the contemporary West, where we imagine that our technological mastery excuses us from wild land curation and management. Even today, burning off the undergrowth every few years is a much more manageable approach to hazard reduction than, eg, the impractical army of laborers required to manually clear scrub on often extremely difficult terrain." Casey Handmer does an excellent job dissecting a large list of things that need to change when it comes to wisely stewarding the lands near our communities to prevent more catastrophic fires from happening in the future. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/the-los-angeles-wildfires-are-self-inflicted/