Washington Post: Wildfires scorched a vast swath of the American wilderness last year. But whether the 10 million acres that burned is a record, as the Obama administration recently announced, or an exaggeration, as some environmentalists claim, is a source of heated debate in a long-running fight over how to manage the nations forests.
A network of about 30 small environmental groups that view wildfires as a natural part of the ecology and think more should be allowed to burn consider the U.S. Forest Services...