I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again now that some evidence is accrued. The conventional wisdom, we just need more controlled burns; fires are good”, is fallacy. It’s convenient to think that way. It appeals to our taste for “the old ways of doing things” but it pretends to situation is unchanged and it ignores all nuance, namely regional variation in the causes and consequences of these fires, and the changing nature of the ecosystem. I hear people say, “we just need controlled burns because that’s the way it always worked” and it’s like hearing people say “we should just go back to the 1950’s way of life, everything was better then.”<p>It’s appeals to simpletons with an agenda. California is filled with such special interests. We can’t get old growth back. What about beatles? Are all trees the same? How long does it take undergrowth to regenerate after a controlled burn? People can’t answer these, they just repeat mindlessly, “fires are a fact.” Just like the globalization zombies. Imagine if humans had never changed things. We’d still have slavery and be living in caves.