Fighting fire with fire: Controlled burns remain essential as US wildfires intensify

Following what the Chief of the U.S. Forest Service called a "pause" to stop all prescribed burns on federal land for three months while an internal review of the practice is done, fire ecologists voiced their opinions that it was the wrong decision.

Fighting fire with fire: Controlled burns remain essential as US wildfires intensify

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