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Are they logging public lands or private. Because those are two very different venues.

Fires are unconcerned with property lines.

Don’t confuse logging in a managed forest with what happens in a “tree farm”. The latter is much more aggressive at logging but also at planing new trees. It’s a business and the land is an asset they are taking care of.

Drive in a circle around Seattle and sigh at all of the rectangular clearcuts on hilly terrain. Worst of the worst.

Sounds like land clearing for building.

Nope. The PNW is prime logging territory.

Someone in another thread tried to make a distinction between public and private land, but last I checked wildfires don’t give a damn who owns the trees that are burning.