In this short video funded by the U.S. Forest Service, research forester Mark Finney talks about the “fire paradox”:
The harder you try to fight fire the worse it gets when it does happen.
A better way to think about #wildfires pic.twitter.com/u3NJR9idLI
— U.S. Forest Service (@forestservice) March 28, 2018
I don’t disagree with this at all. The underlying issue still remains. Funding, and staffing, to accomplish this on a large enough scale to see results and continued funding.jw