I thought all the people now fire-phobic decided that trees are evil and should be all plowed down.  So why plant trees after a fire?  Surely pouring concrete over everything would be a better move.

People tend to over react after a fire, and it really changes a place from what many Alaskans love.  We are seeing a bit of that on the Kenai Peninsula right now.  Some neighborhoods look closer to a California development, instead of looking like an Alaskan neighborhood.