The need for active management of western forests has a new champion: The Los Angeles Times. Hayley Smith reports that a third of the forests in California’s southern Sierra Nevada Mountains have been devastated over the past decade. And she recognizes that to prevent further incursions by fire and blight, active management is needed, including prescribed…
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Forest Service Halts Prescribed Burns. More Fire Danger Will Follow
The U.S. Forest Service has halted prescribed burns (fires deliberately started to reduce trees and brush that could fuel dangerous wildfires) for 90 days—that is, for most of the summer. The reason is that a prescribed burn in April led to the Hermits Peak Fire in New Mexico—which, by joining with the Calf Canyon fire—became…