Sure, but maybe they're not supposed to come back as pine stands. That's the point I'm trying to make. What types of stands do they have in northern California? The northern California climate of 100 years ago was more like the climate of southern British Columbia now, so what do their forests look like? Isn't that what we should be managing towards?
I don't expect pine stands to come back here, because the mountain pine beetle would just eat them all.