Do you also support draconian punishments for people and organizations who blocked controlled burns and other wildfire control measures?
Afterwards everybody could get together, drink a cold beer, tell stories, bitch about how hard it is to be an arsonist and the lousy pay, and argue about who is the best arsonist!
Heck, CA needs so many controlled burns that they could create jobs for arsonists, thus preventing them from initiating disasters b/c of their failed "theatre arts" attempts. "Hello, Thompson, Department of Arson. Burn, Baby, Burn! How can I help you?"
This would also alleviate other states' problems as most arsonists would move to CA to get a steady job.
My understanding is that lack of wild and controlled burns can be attributed to two factors:
1) Emotion driven environmentalism trumping environmental scientists
2) Political deferral due to the risk of blowback from out of control burns.
3) The urban public likes purty forests to go vacation in.
EDIT: I also feel like you're (believe it or not) politicizing this as conservatives and libertarians in favor of controlled burns and arson (yes, that is exactly what you sound like), and hippie dippie out of touch leftist urbanites being the real root cause of all this because of their supposed intolerance of controlled burns.