The American West Is a Fire Problem

We have decades of what we're calling fire suppression where those natural fires, either from lightning strikes or indigenous communities, applied them on the landscapes a lot. And then humans showed up and decided at some point in the 19th or 20th century, let's just put out every fire. That causes massive buildup of "fuels," which I will have to say is kind of an insider term for dead tree decaying material that you just builds up in the absence of any fire or other" There's growing bipartisan consensus that we need to do these things, but actually moving through the approval process takes a long time.