Thinning, prescribed burns protected forests during the massive Carlton Complex wildfire
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 17:00
in Earth & Climate
The 2014 Carlton Complex wildfire in north central Washington was the largest contiguous fire in state history. In just a single day, flames spread over 160,000 acres of forest and rangeland and ultimately burned more than 250,000 acres in the midst of a particularly hot, dry summer.