A week after the National Weather Service’s Mount Holly office issued a warning of an increased risk of wildfires due to weather conditions, the forecast has mostly rain and clouds for the early part of the week before the sun is expected to return Thursday. Still, a forestry expert believes wildfire is always a risk, regardless of weather conditions, because of the policies in place to manage state-owned forests.

Bob Williams, president and owner of Pine Creek Forestry, called the state’s forest policies “the same old same,”…