From the text...'In addition to tremendous costs associated with suppression, wildfires have a dramatic impact on the health of our forests. California forests have become dangerous tinderboxes, filled with decaying, overstocked trees and chaparral. In its March 1996 statewide fire plan, the State Board of Forestry identified deteriorating forest health, increasing fuel loads and other factors as having led to more intense and destructive wildfires, increasingly putting life, property, natural resources and firefighters at risk...In an effort to reduce the fuels problem, Santa Barbara County fire officials have agreed to the use of prescribed fire management.'