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Is that what happened with the forest fires?
There is a degree to which wild fires could be solved "just" by ramping up land management significantly to remove invasive species, remove dead growth and overgrowth, etc.
The wildfires have been so bad primarily because of invasive species changing what grows where and breaking down natural fire protections, combined with climate change and reduced natural wildfires creating higher fire risk conditions
My understanding is they also introduced Australian trees that drop huge amounts of combustible material to contribute to fires because they thrive in those conditions