The DISCOVERY CHANNEL has a very good documentary on firefighting in the USA. The history of fire suppresion has a direct bearing on our situation today. The bottom line is many forest systems have a fire ecology which periodically cleans house for the good of all. Many seeds actually require the heat of fire to germinate. We can no more stop fire than drill relief holes in the Sand Andreas fault line. We can get everyone together, ignore agendas ( logging barons want to sell everythingdown to the shagged jeans of their employee's and deep ecologists want us to return to a hunter gatherer vegan population of half a million.) and sort the mess out.