Will we ever change the way we approach wildfires?

It’s certainly not the same kind of encore I cheered for a little over a month ago at a Jackson Browne concert.

Unfortunately the front and center return to the stage that has had everyone talking and tearing up lately has been a ravaging wildfire season that leaves last year’s suddenly pale in comparison.

Just 13 months after the Carlton Complex blackened a record 252,000 in Okanogan County, two lightning-caused blazes, the Okanogan Complex Fire covering the hills north of Omak and the North Star Fire, which has threatened the town of Republic for days.

Combined these fires destroyed over 715...