that state, state assembly when heath flora last year called on using the states $22 billion budget surplus to implement vegetation management. fires obviously don't spread as well if they're not connected by huge forests which act as kindling. all of that is obvious which means you can't say it out loud. the natural world is anathema to ideologues like this, the same people who talk about protecting nature hate nature, everything about nature. presumablyab you're also a clime change denier when you point out national guard n national guard's firefighting helicopters aren't in oregon anymore, they are in afghanist afghanistan. instead of dropping water to suppress the blazes, theses, helicopters are supplying a war effort going on for nearly 20 years for no reason. so how did that happen and what is the effect of its? those might be good questions to ask of gavin newsom, jay inslee, the governor of oregon -- does anyone even care? the answer of course is no,