Our forest has a natural fire cycle too, which has been interrupted by greater effort to suppress fire, and also the encroachment of human habitation makes it still more undesirable to burn. Locally where I'm living there hasn't been a fire for well over 100 years, maybe longer, and not much cutting either. The spruce and fir here don't live more than 100 on average, of the older trees many are falling or fallen. The uncut thickets that spring up are mostly killed by competition, leave a dense mess of sticks between the slightly taller survivors. That generation is increasingly prone to the 'late fire cycle' fungi - witches broom and others that basically cause the tree to produce a mess of flammable resin and twigs, more or less fire bomb material.
I am looking at a big job here to try and manage the situation, before our turn at drought comes around.
Seems counterintuitive to be cutting trees, but so many are just trunks with a frond on top, you would have as much photosynthetic mass again in a couple of years, only closer to the ground.