Study: Federal government needs to set more prescribed fires in West

President Trump has laid the blame for out-of-control California wildfires on the state’s “gross mismanagement” of its forests. Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke pointed the finger at “environmental terrorist groups.”

But according to a new study, the federal government is not doing enough to control the threat of wildfire in the West.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-wildfire-mitigation-prescribed-burn-west-20190529-story.html