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Thursday, March 29, 2018
California fights wildfires aggressively - but prevention takes a back seat
A comprehensive look at the state of California's forests shows that a 19th-century forest would have held fewer than 50 trees an acre, but today's overcrowded forests have grown to an unnatural 300 to 500 trees an acre because the state is better at fighting fires than in preventing fires.
California fights wildfires aggressively - but prevention takes a back seat
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