It is a LIE that logging would help prevent forest fires or spreading of fires.

[Eliot Rosewater]

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181113-five-myths-about-wildfires

Myth #1: Regularly logging forests prevents forest fires

A common assumption is that logging, or removing some trees, would prevent fires. In fact, many forest experts say that logging is ineffective. This is because the tree remnants left over after logging, such as stumps and branches, provide a super-fuel for fire – one that is even drier (and more flammable) in the absence of a forest canopy.

My closest friend is former hotshot Captain, firefighter, USFS.

I was telling him how I believed that logging might reduce fires, he assured me no, not at all.

Power companies use this as an excuse.

SPREAD the word EVERYWHERE!

[Vogon_Glory]

1. Power companies aren't the only people spreading this fable

It’s a favored lie in other right-wingers’ lie lockers.

[Darwins_Retriever]

2. And under brush grows more abundant

Increasing the amount of sun that reaches the forest floor increases under brush grown and dries the growth and soil.

[yonder]

3. A slash pile just sits there and sits there, year after year...

...till one day it takes a spark, then whoosh.

[multigraincracker]

4. Smoky the bear says

Only you can prevent forest fires. I try.

[mcar]

5. No, no, Eliiot, we have to sweep the forests

It's really that simple.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. I know, right

[Mysterian]

7. After West Virginia was deforested in the early 20th century

what was left behind was burning mountains of slash.