California blazes prompt rethinking of who ‘owns’ wildfire
The West has endured three decades of deepening hardship as ailing forests, climate change, and unrestrained development force a reckoning with wildfires gaining in scale and intensity. Five of the six largest wildfires in California’s history have occurred this year… A national strategy to reform wildland fire management … identifies wildfire and prescribed fire as essential to the resilience of forests, grasslands, and watersheds.
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