Last year was the quickest the results were posted.
Put in for moose for the first time in years. Historically about a 15% chance in the hunt I applied for.
Still would like one more Idaho sheep hunt. However odds have lowered except the unit 27 hunts to less than 5%.
Was earlier stated...
Only real answer is to build fire proof structures and reduce fuels around them. For shade on your house in the summer afternoons - build a sun screen that can be run up a couple of flag poles.
200 years of hyper fossil fuel burning is literally cooking the atmosphere.
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth104/node/1347
The 70's were the decade to start real change.
Hotter and drier.
Man is directly responsible for the increase in fires.
About 33 million acres of forest in California.
GOP solutions - clear cut 1/2, overgraze all of it, rake it.
Effect: During heavy rains massive mud slides and flows. Sediment fills reservoirs.
Chaparral brush fields grow back in 5 years or so. Fuel loads come right back.