For thousands of year, forests in the Pacific Northwest flourished -- until white men came along, cut down all the trees and converted large tracts of stumps into disease, bug and fire prone monoculture tree farms. 

Of course, Zybach's "forest health" solutions will always involve a chain saw, but in this case he has a cute trick: we leap to help homeless Californians rebuild their houses in ecologically unhealthy, fire prone neighborhoods.

Stephen J. Remington