[troutman]

Originally Posted by Azure

The United States has more trees now than it has ever had in the history of this planet. With proper forest management it is entirely possible to avoid out of control forest fires that burn down entire areas of young growth trees.

Also, at some point fires are needed because the existing tree life is not sequestering C02, and if those trees aren't being harvested? Well, time to burn and let new ones take their place.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore..._United_States

It has been estimated that before European settlement, forests in the United States covered nearly 1 billion acres (4,000,000 km2)

As of 2016, roughly 36.21% (about one-third of the U.S.) is forested.[3] Excluding the U.S. territories, forested land in the U.S. covers roughly 818,814,000 acres (3,313,622 square kilometers).[3] As of 2005, the United States ranked seventh in the rate of loss of its old growth forests.[4]

https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/br...actsMetric.pdf