People want to build homes where it's 'pretty', like ocean front, mountain canyons, and on banks of certain rivers...then when floods & fires arrive, they expect to be rescued,like Kendall says....IT DON'T WORK THAT WAY!....

the Forest Service and the Corps of Engineers have LONG had policies that were not environmentally sound in the long view, and they are only now beginning to get it..They are trying to rescue the Everglades by blowing up old dams and allowing the water its natural coarse, and they are learning that forests MUST be allowed some smaller fires, or eventually the BIG one will get them!....and please understand that every administration made some mistakes...though for different reasons.

When there are too many humans, some will find floods and fires 'inconvenient', and want to control nature....well, we are seeing the smoke from those errors!...in a wetter year, it wouldn't have been so bad, but..........*sigh*....can't ANYONE in authority look beyond the end of their nose and see that policy has to deal with more than short term personal/political/economic interests?