According to the wikipedia article on DDT “Spraying programs (especially using DDT) were curtailed … mostly because mosquitoes were developing resistance to DDT. IOW, DDT wasn’t working any more. DDT is not a magic bullet that will simply make malaria extinct. Need I mention that malaria was endemic to the US and was eliminated without DDT?
Wildfires are not caused by not logging. Wildfires are caused by a long standing policy of fire suppression, which has caused the buildup of brush that you mention. Cutting down all the trees would reduce the number of wildfires. It would also reduce the number of trees. Funny how that works.
In Mexico just south of California they let the fires burn, rather than put them all out as we have done in the US. The fires in Mexico are smaller and burn themselves out quicker because they happen more often and there is less fuel. What has been changing is the fire suppression policy.
I understand that some people would rather cut down all the trees than let them burn as part of natural or prescribed fires but saying that logging is the answer to forest fires and that anti-logging is the cause of fires is ridiculous.
