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The national park service does controlled burns in Yosemite and has for a couple decades at this point. You can argue they don't do enough but they're limited by bureaucracy, safe conditions, and manpower rather than willingness.



National parks are a small percentage of California’s land area. Does the state do controlled burns outside of the national parks? If not, national parks doing controlled burns do not do very much.


Yes they do. It's a completely different set of government agencies with different policies though.


Newsweek suggests that they do not do enough of it:

https://www.newsweek.com/controlled-burns-california-forest-...

That article focuses on the federal side, but this article by Ars Technica appears to include the state side:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/why-isnt-california-...




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