All government has to do is create an urban growth boundary, as WA State has done, to funnel all new growth into city areas. Government doesn't need to intentionally destroy rural areas to accomplish that goal. It's a simple permitting/zoning issue.
That doesn't mean the lefty plans for forest management are not a problem and causing forest fires.
https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1666948987281195009?s=20
Like with California, the greens stop logging and forest thinning and then you get to a hard truth: Log it, thin it or let it eventually burn. Especially when you get the green gaia religionists lighting fires to prove global warming.