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Privatization is not needed. The federal government can manage fire fighting, but all logging and mining should be locally regulated and state and federal officials should have no power to block locally approved projects. Then forest service land can be subject to the local authorities where the land actually is and not governed by activists in big cities.I spent 30 years for one of the federal land management agencies in Fire management.
From personal experience, State Government would not do any better. Privatizing federal lands is not the answer.
If legal logging were tripled, which it easily could be, many forest fire issues would disappear since there would be more church of older and deader trees