Trump say some stupid shit sometimes, but it doesn't mean he's wrong.
He's 100% right about poor forest management in California. You can't cut a few trees down without a needing some kind of environmental impact assessment. That's why timber companies don't even bother in California. Too much red tape just to cut down a few trees.
California requires some heavy tree thinning. What happens in all these wild fires and how it spreads so fast is because of crown fires. Imagine having 100 matches so close together that if you light one, it spreads to all of them in a matter of seconds. Because the trees are so dense, the top of trees catch fire and it just keeps spreading.
When you thin a forest, there is still the possible of crown fires, but it would require heavier winds to spread from one tree to the next. If they thin the trees and keep the fire on the ground, it spreads at a much slower rate and give firefights a chance to stop it before it causes mass destruction.
I can't stand how some people immediately dismiss Trump because he's not politically correct. Or because he even dared to bring up behavior that should probably be improved---and behavior that is ruining people's lives. ---