My friend George Wuerthner writes frequently about wildfires. His central position is that forest logging (“thinning”) is detrimental to forest ecosystems and can increase the probability of destructive, large scale wildfires. Other actions are more important to protect communities. Of course, this is not intuitive and is not the commonly held opinion. It’s a complicated subject but yesterday he posted this article which provides an overview of some of his research. It is not a question of if, only when, a large scale, wind-driven fire impacts homes in Central Oregon but homeowners, building codes, and land use can make a difference. I have spent a lot of time over the past few years increasing the fire resiliency of my home, efforts that are continuing.