Re: closed for how long?

I'm sure that the fact that fires have not been allowed to burn out the sick and weaker trees has helped result in this bark beetle plague. The forest is unhealthy - not just in San Bernadino but all over the west. In the Sierras, most of the forests I hike in are overgrown and sickly. Our land management system has been a total disaster. Rather than banning people from the forests, they need to let the disastrous fires burn and take steps to clear the areas around human population centers. After a few decades and a few fires, our forests will hopefully return to their healthy pre-Euro invasion condition.