Readers write: Fire management, a little wordplay, and more

Fire management

Thank you for the article “Setting ‘good fires’ to reduce the West’s wildfire risk” in the Nov. 9 Monitor Weekly. But no thanks for missing important contrasts between the choices of forest managers in Florida and California. 

The need for more preventive prescribed fire was a core part of curriculum when I was in forestry school 50 years ago

A little wordplayBooks into films