Man made, but not because of "climate change", but other man-made mismanagement.
"What makes these fires bigger has a lot to do with how we've mismanaged the landscapes for the last 100 years. Fire suppression, changes in grazing patterns, loss of wetlands. We allow shrub lands and grasses to build up underneath it, add more fuel to the fire, and you have more urban development, just the more asphalt, the more cement you're raising temperatures," says professor Jim Steele, Director emeritus of San Francisco State University's Sierra Nevada Field Campus.
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