the answer is sell a great deal of the national forests to the states and to private people. The state sales should be massive acreage sales of 25-50,000 and to private people 40, 80, 160, 320, 640 acre sales. Cut the national forest inventory by at least 33 percent. Allow for more local control of the management of forests, place the trust in the local operations rather than Washington, D.C. When this occurs the forests will be thinned properly.

Your answer is to leave it alone, let it burn, let the forest service take out most of the access roads so that the only people who can use it will end up being crazy hippie backpackers. Continue to have the forest service spend billions of dollars watching fires instead of fighting them because you would think it a terrible shame for the wildland firefighting industry to take a hit. You would want the people who live near the forest to be forced from their homes so you can rest easier at night. That's the summation of your answer, which is why you are so reluctant to share it.

You've provided the vacuum and I am more than happy to fill it up for you with what your ideas lead to.