this was also the case in america as well until around the 1960s when white people finally figured out that fire was a natural part of the ecosystem and some plants even need it to reproduce (like the giant sequoia). of course, native americans had been saying these things, but it was ignored. so all of these âgreat fires ofâ were the result of accumulation of highly flammable underbrush and the inevitability of fires (mostly from lightning rather than the smokey bear era belief that campfires started all forest fires)
in the 1980s, 3 major fire events (including the Yellowstone fires in 1988) ended the widescale practice of fire suppression and the adoption of âfire managementâ
essentially, fires are allowed to burn themselves out within certain acceptable areas. obviously this is meant to prevent fires from spreading to areas with human settlement (since, unlike australia, most of america has at least some human population).
however, this also means that areas outside of these acceptable fire zones were accumulating undergrowth without smaller fires controlling the growth, which makes them hard to control once they reach these areas, which are generally near people. so those fires in california are basically what all of america was once at risk of before fire management became widely used.
but yeah, again, listen to indigenous people when they tell you how /their/ land works.