"they do that now with controlled burns, something even you've probably heard of."--HB
wasn't it Clinton's Secretary of Interior, Babbit that championed these "controlled" burns?
funny thing is, when a chainsaw gets out of hand it's just one dude's problem, when a "controlled" burn gets out of hand, it becomes an entire forest's problem and they get out of control quite often, winds being the biotch that they are