OPINION: Federal forest managers are too tangled in their own bureaucracy to mitigate wildfires

Fires will continue to rage out of control unless the federal government learns from the Western states how to properly steward public lands, writes guest columnist Madi Clark

Working for the Bureau of Land Management as an initial attack firefighter during my summers in college, you would learn pretty fast how to properly move the hose to quickly fight the flame. During my last summer, our engine had a firefighter on our crew whose only experience was digging lines and not moving water. One night we were trying to quickly catch a growing wildfire, but our new crewmate kept getting tangled in the hose.