The Fire Business Is Killing People, Wild Horses Are Already Doing the Job the Budget Will Not Fund, and a Slice of the Cattle Industry Is Stuck in the 19th Century
Wildfires in the United States and Canada are not a weather story. They are a budget story, a smoke story, and a land-use story. Suppression is overweighted. Prevention is underfunded. Fine fuels keep stacking in vacant forest. And a slice of the livestock lobby is selling cattle as the only four-legged answer — including on …