Explain what part of it? In that article, the California fire chief took responsibility for communicating the wrong information to the governor's office. I'm gonna guess the pandemic had something to do with last year's shortfall, but this really needs more indepth research that can dig through a few years' worth of records.
Newsom was derelict in his duties as governor and lied about forestry management. this is one of the big reasons for his recall along with the rapidly growing homeless crisis.
Looks like you didn't address this part of my comment: the California fire chief took responsibility for communicating the wrong information to the governor's office
Please don't use HN for electioneering. Given that the recall election is the 3rd such effort in 3 years and that said recall efforts predate this forest management issue you allude to, I do not believe it is the major factor you suggest it to be. It seems much more economical to believe the recall proponents learned from their first 2 failures and succeeded on their third attempt.