Yosemite National Park burning

Slate has a video of the Yosemite fire:

Rico says he can only concur with a commenter on the video:

Good to see the 110-year-old NFS policy of putting out wildfires has been catastrophic to the health of forests in the West. Instead of small wildfires that burn out small amounts of undergrowth and deadwood, leaving the trees, every twenty years or so, thanks to that policy it now has huge wildfires feeding off a hundred years worth of undergrowth and deadwood, which destroys everything and sterilizes the soil.