Does thinning work for wildfire prevention?

Experts weighed in on the effectiveness of reducing wildfire severity by thinning the forests while debunking the anti-thinning rhetoric voiced by some critics, noting a clear distinction between logging, which makes money by harvesting the largest trees, and thinning, which loses money by harvesting the smaller trees.

Does thinning work for wildfire prevention?

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