To the editor: Creating sustainable, fire-safe environments around our homes by starting from the “house out rather than from the wildland in” is the best way to address wildfire risk. Kyle Dickman did an excellent job explaining this in his Op-Ed article. ("Why we need to learn to live with fire instead of fighting it," op-ed, Aug. 8)
However, he should have led with this important point rather than repeating the parroted assumption that “we have created our fire problem” by allowing forests to “overgrow” because of past fire suppression.