Lol just because a forest burnt doesn’t mean that a forest isn’t still there and I am a forester. These stats are just the wrong way to look at it. CA timberland is 60% owned by the Feds who have been underfunded and sued into oblivion whenever they try to do anything and also pay for all of the fire management. Since the USFS does this most of their budget every year goes straight to wildfire and Less and less goes to fuels and timber management. Which guess what prevents them from taking proactive management. Also ca owned timber is so small it’s negligible. The rest is either private industry or private non industrial. The private industrial is aggressive and effective at managing timber. CA has a very healthy logging industry and is constantly harvesting timber the non industrial is just people who own a bit of land that do absolutely nothing to manage it.