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Some of the policies that led to overgrown forests, such as aggressive fire suppression, were implemented more than 100 years ago.
He said people living in areas burning up now are paying the price because policymakers would not address climate change and the effects of fire suppression on forests 30 or 40 years ago.
The principal reason forests are overgrown is that for more than 100 years, fire has been aggressively stopped, which causes forests to become overgrown, he said. Smaller, less intense fires keep the forests thinned and less likely to burn as hot and fast, he said.