Here's how California can use fire solve its wildfire problem

Thursday, December 20, 2018 - 09:40 in Earth & Climate

If California wants to get out in front of its wildfire problem, scientists have some clear but counterintuitive advice: Start more fires. Decades of research shows that lighting fires under safe conditions not only clears out the dead plants and thick underbrush that fuel many severe wildfires,...

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