Really sensationalist title. Should read “Forest of trees that need fire to reproduce were hit by a natural fire instead of the artificial burn that was planned because we did decades of ‘no fire is good’ prevention, leading to overgrowth and dead vegetation taking over, making the natural seasonal fires grow out of control”.

A little wordy, I’ll admit. Key takeaway though is that this is what’s supposed to happen. And would have happened to a lesser extent if we weren’t meddling so much and preventing necessary fires because rich dolts build luxury homes in fire zones.

Time to bring in the gophers.