FEMA, eucalyptus cuts, and herbicides: Fix or pox for fire prone East Bay hills?

What is being proposed is RESTORATION of the pre-existing habitat in the East Bay Hills, which has been sadly ignored by settlers who cut down the giant redwood groves and planted "decorative" exotic trees instead.
A Eucalyptus plantation is NOT a forest. A forest is a group of organisms which has CO-EVOLVED over time. When you eradicate the original trees and plants and replace them with exotic species, you have a breakdown of that environment. Birds feed on the "gum" or nector produced by Eucalyptus flowers, but, lacking the long curved bills Australian species evolved, get suffocated by the stuff.
Additionally, the eucalyptus themselves contain herbicide which prevents most plants from growing underneath. What we wind up with is a biological desert, benefitting few native species of anything.
Finally, there's FIRE. I could see the flames of the Last big East Bay Hills fire from my rooftop in San Francisco. That meant that they were 50 feet tall. Get rid of them now!
Look as well to Angel Island, the Presidio, and elsewhere where eucalyptus, acacia, scotchbroom or Pampas Grass has been eradicated and restored to the native Oaks, Redwoods, Chaparral or meadows and tell me that is not beautiful.

Bark, leaves, and dropped branches stacked like kindling... beneath a canopy known for producing devastating crown fires.

The herbicides will be brushed onto the stumps, not sprayed. I am taking pictures and documenting the fire danger these trees present. The photos are available as public domain on my blog.