Again, pointing out to an opinion by one group or individual among white people is not a universal thing. It might shock you to hear this, but white people commonly disagree about various approaches to problem solving and politics.

Controlled burning has been used in the South by white people since the early 1800s: https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/19091, where "it was quickly adopted from the Indians by early European settlers".

One ranger in California in 1918 does not speak for an entire race for God's sake. That should be obvious.