SoCal Wildfires

The high desert is once again in an uncontrollable blaze thanks to decades of fire suppression and strangling growth of underbrush. I know the area fairly well being a frequent visitor to Joshua Tree N.P. to climb and used to camp outside the park in the area now ablaze. It was a grossly overgrown area of desert scrub, manzanita is impassable and burns very hot, with many dead pines also overly dense from a bark beetle infection. This my friends is a recipe for horrific wildfire when combined with the ever preseant hot, dry wind. Many of my best friends are in forestry and agree with me.
When I lived in SoCal I did alot of volunteer work for a Boy Scout camp that was lost in the fires a couple years ago as favor to a man dedicated to forestry helping to clear defenible space, it was a blast. I helped remove some really big dead trees aound the camp and raised the trees and cleaned out all the dead wood around the camp. To no avail, it burned a couple years later, a real tragedy, it was a really cool Scout camp bordering an Indian reservation with great rock for climbing.
The primary pines in the region are the Coulter , Sugar, Pinon and Ponderosa, all heavy sap trees. Coulter pinecones, the worlds largest and heaviest could be called natures gas can when set afire. We always gathered a stack as a side for the camp fire as firelight, thrown on one at a time they illuminate quite an area for a surprising amount of time. All off these pines have a high turpentine content especially dead and burn with extreme heat, can you say an inferno?
The envirobats blocked removal of all those dead trees and other sane forestry practices for decades and this is the result. I used to be one of them, contibuting to The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, etc...., their policies ended up in the wrong place and unable reconcile my own research and observations. Fire is needed by the high desert environs to actually break open the the cones of theses pines and prepere the ground for their seeds, the mighty Sequoyia is a perfect example of this need of regular fire.
Meanwhile the desert gets fried beyond recognition thanks to decades of faulty forestry habits. That was is an unbelievably gorgeous area, it will recover, slowly, but on the bright side thousands of inaccessable boulders and climbing areas will now be wide open to first accent. Next spring will yield a gold mine of new spots as the granite in the region is unreal for climbing, as well as being adjacent to Joshua Tree. I miss camping down there, its a wonderful experience.
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???? I was looking for news and found wrastlin on NBC, somebdy slap me. Have we really descended to fake gladitorial games and pompetry?