Commentary In late July, President Joe Biden held a virtual joint planning meeting and press conference with the governors of various Western states to discuss how to handle 2021’s wildfire season. Every leader blamed catastrophic human climate change for the severity of recent wildfire seasons. The New York Times allowed Oregon’s Democratic Gov. Kate Brown to follow up that event with an editorial titled “The West Is on Fire, It’s Past Time to Act on Climate Change.” Biden and the governors are wrong. Wildfires have been common throughout the West historically, often burning more acres than have burned in recent years. To the extent that wildfires have increased in intensity recently, it’s not due to modest warming, but rather to decades of federal and state mismanagement of publicly owned forests throughout the Western United States, leaving those forests in tinderbox conditions. It has been more than a century since California …