Fires were started

[michael at ecst.csuchico.edu]

One of the problems is not that they were untended, but that they were
"tended".  Fires are natural in the region.  By preventing forest 
fires, the small fires that clean out the underbrush do not happen, so
they get huge fires that ravage the forests


> 
> Any views on the forest fires that are reported here?
> 
> Too much land retired from productive use and untended?
> -- 
> James Heartfield
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-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu