Comment by seadan83

Can you provide more evidence that logging suppressed the modern super fires?

It strikes me as implausible and unrelated: - fire fighting costs is now exponentially more AFAIK

- that revenue from the 90s might not have gone back to forests

- while billions of log feet sounds a lot, it might not be

- young forests burn, old forests are fire resistant. That logging creates young forests

- logging requires access. Places inaccessible will still burn and still be a problem

- fire breaks from logging only helps so much with santa anna style winds that blow embers very, very far

- logging does not remove undergrowth, per the article it creates a ladder situation where tree tops will combust

- old growth west coast forests are fire adapted and burns are necessary. Logging and suppression do not seem like the right solutions

- conditions have changed since the 90s. Different rainfall patterns, different cycle of draughts, 30 more years of fire suppression and combustible materials, and 30 more years of (hyper fast) climate change (significant changes have occurred in that minuscule amount of time)