WILDFIRE NEWS OF THE DAY - 062114

United States

(1) Wildfire NOTD subscriber Bruce Courtright, Chairman of the National Institute for the Elimination of Catastrophic Wildfire, sent along a Wall Street Journal article which argues that an increased firefighting budget without prescribed burning and other fuel-removing actions will not solve the mega-fire problem in the West
Fighting Western Fires With Economics

(2) Wildfire NOTD subscriber Dominick DellaSala, President of the Geos Institute, sent along an abstract on forest carbon, logging, and fires
High-Biomass Forests of the Pacific Northwest: Who Manages Them and How Much is Protected?

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