Preventing future fires

[mhagen]

big snip

> 
> Comment by poster: Gee, what a novel idea to treat the disease instead
> of throwing money at the symptoms. I'll be seeing those SoCal forests
> in person in the next few weeks on an assignment down there. I'll be
> sure to take pictures to show what a lack of forest management did.
> Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of dead trees are rotting and bark
> beetles are still hungry.
> 

Just how does one "manage" chapparal without burning it?  Even the areas 
in So. Cal. with trees have no market.