Seeking expert opinion: thinning vs prescribed burns

tom and barb and steelhunter, if you both are logging professionals, do you have specific opinions about thinning versus prescribed burns?

To put it another way, what's past is past -- clearly, total fire prevention did not work. And clear-cutting does prevent fires, but it is a pretty extreme remedy. So that is why I am trying to evaluate the various middle-ground solutions. I am guessing that the answer is not so simple.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!