I've answered that over and over, National. I wouldn't let my county officials hold $5 for me until tomorrow. I want a professional staff to manage them, without having to show a profit. You bounce out there and try to pass yourself off as an expert, fact is you don't know chit. You don't have a clue whats burning and whats not. The truth is that most of the acres burned AREN'T timber. And you haven't a shred of evidence to counter that.
Its obvious that you live in a small world, Private forests from the west coast through AR and OK to the south east are grown extremely thick. The reason they don't burn as quick is because they are in plots, too thick for underbrush to grow, and unnatural. Natural forest will always be in the way nature, if they wouldn't they would be artificial, or cut down, like you suggest.
Don't argue thinning, you don't understand the process.

It will take time to overcome the mistake of fire suppression that was in place for decades until 1989, and it won't be cured in 18 years. There's no way man can overcome what nature did in many decades in less than two.