Most of the forests in Cali are National Forest lands administered by the federal government.
The US Forest Service actually tried - they had 8 full projects for thinning and clearing the brush in NF lands. Problem is that Congress wouldn't fund it - they're spending all their efforts trying to impeach the POTUS instead of taking care of things like their funding duties. A big reason why a DNC controlled Congress won't fund it though is because of all the crazy environmentalist that support them don't want the projects to move forward.
And if thump is going to withhold disaster relief for political reasons maybe we should withhold sending California tax money to the federal gov.....the other 49 states would go broke.....
Well that's just silly, California as a state can't really "withhold" tax money as they don't touch it. Companies withhold taxes from employee checks and submit it directly, along with any corporate taxes due. And not a single company would dare attempt to withhold federal tax money. Furthermore, the federal government controls the banks, thus they control the flow of money.
Also, the idea that the federal government would go broke if they lost 13% of their revenue is a bit silly. The US government would essentially lose about 100 billion (456 billion or so in revenue from CA, and about 350 billion in expenditures in CA). Also noteworthy that per capita revenue from CA is much lower than half the states - it's really only CA's population that gives the state a high contribution level.
Furthermore, California is a very dependent state. Water, power, food, fuel ....California only has enough of these things for their population because of all those silly "leech" states that Californians like to bitch about "supporting". Pretty much all states are dependent on all the other states. The closest any state gets to being able to be "independent" is Texas and that's because they spent a ton of money doing it - setup their own power grid (no other state has their own power grid that could power their state if disconnected from the national power grid). Massive land mass, with a lot of farm and ranching land. Crazy amount of oil resources and refineries. Well managed fish and wildlife resources keeps those things abundant in Texas. Just a combination of great management of the resources here really.
Also worth noting that for the last decade California has had a NEGATIVE migration among U.S. Citizens and legal residents. The state had only grown in population by 1.2 million in the past decade, whereas states like Texas grew by 4 million in the past decade. U.S. citizens and legal residents are fleeing the state, the population growth is entirely due to immigration.