They would need a lot of people who want or use firewood
The trees are not some large New England tree, some of them can take two days for a crew to take down, but for the most part they can do 20 a day and I'm not sure that includes brush removal.
This is from 2016 and the number of dead trees had more than doubled in the previous year, do you think it went down in the following two years?
Estimates by the U.S. Forest Service put the number of dead trees in California forests at 102 million, broad swaths that officials call a wildfire and public safety risk. Declaring a state of emergency last fall when the count stood at 40 million, Gov. Jerry Brown ordered state agencies to clear the hazards.
https://www.latimes.com/local/califo...129-story.html