Sierra Nevada parcel will test ways to reduce mega fires and increase snowpack

Friday, August 14, 2015 - 12:40 in Earth & Climate

Forest ecologists finally got their wish: an entire private landscape on which to test methods of tree thinning and controlled burns to reduce risk of mega fires and minimize the effects of drought on California's frozen reservoirs -- mountain snowpacks.

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