text: So where do you live?
  Do you live on acreage covered in trees as I do?
  Have you been evacuated 4 of the past 10 years, as I have?
  Do you actually attend municipal and provincial meetings regarding fire fuel remediation, as I do?
  
  I didn't think so.
  
  You can not let fires simply burn when they are in close proximity to human habitation.  Sure, in desolate areas, let them burn, as they already do, and have done for decades.  Within 1 km of human habitation, the only preventative action is to remove deadfalls and dead standing wood, as every municipality in BC does, and has done for decades.
  
  The problem is crown land (administered by the provincial government of the day) which is located within municipal limits.  Municipalities across BC have made requests ( and been denied) funding to address this key issue.  No one is suggesting that dead wood should be removed from forests located away from human habitation.
  
  Perhaps you should comment on things you actually know something about.