(Noah Berger | AP file photo) An air tanker drops retardant on a wildfire burning above the Spring Lakes community near Clearlake Oaks, Calif., in June 2018. California regulators on Tuesday. Dec.31, 2019, said that they have streamlined the state's permit process to make it faster to approve tree-thinning projects designed to slow massive wildfires that have devastated communities in recent years.