The federal gov should reallocate funds from fighting wildfires to paying timber companies to thin in forest-urban interface zones. Paying the timber industry by allowing them access to larger, healthy trees in previously untouched areas is a mistake. Next, stop the madess of squelching every fire that starts. I know, they are getting better at this, but they've still got a long way to go. It's a hard road due to the last 50 years or so of highly effective fire suppression. Can't just stop squelching 'em, because then we'd have an environmental disaster. Of course, we can't go in and thin everywhere (thinning requires roads to get trucks in), because that would be another disaster.
Thin the urban interface zones to prevent damage to structural elements, and over the next decade or two, slowly let the accumulation of underbrush burn itself out in remote wilderness, letting natural fire cycles resume.
just my $.02 (i'm refraining from paying out the whole grand or so I have to say about bush and his bogus environmental "advances" )