Does it ever occur to you, and other people that blame the USFS for fires/smoke, that forest fires might actually be beyond human control? 

That extensive logging and tree plantations have stripped the land's resilience to fire? That change in the length of the fire season, added to greater development in forest lands, added to changes in plant succession and rainfall patterns, have created fire potential beyond our methods to control, or even comprehend? 

I get the impression that this debate has been going on for awhile: log the fuel? or let fires take care of it? It might be that nature herself, because of climate change, has made this debate irrelevant.