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.

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AlotOfReading 5 months ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	ryao 5 months ago \| parent [-]
		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-...