Oh Yes - I have read your Bio, from Austin and into Folk Dancing. An EE from 30 years ago hardly qualifies you to make judgments such as this. So you solution is to employ armies of workers to clear out the forests ? I have news for you, forests burn at times, this is the way God created the world to work, which is in cycles of growth, death and regeneration (which also mirrors the human condition both in a physical and spiritual sense).