As the West burns, environmental historian Bill Deverell said one need only to look to the practices of indigenous tribes as one way to help curtail the scope of wildfires.
that have killed 115 people so far, with more than a thousand people who remain missing.
Recognizing the importance of prescribed burns, the University of Southern California is also entrenched in a project funded through the National Science Foundation usingas a metric for identifying the best locations and least risk for landscape-scale controlled burns. "So there's investment and interest from the wildfire community to understand how to do prescribed burns more effectively."
That narrow window of choices adds to the complexity of the problem because of other considerations that need to be taken into account.Landscapes in which endangered or threatened species would be impactedThose considerations can naturally be at odds with one another. An ideal location for a prescribed burn that does not jeopardize structures may inevitably harm already impaired wildlife.
Crews used a control and confine strategy on the blaze as a way for nature to do its own housekeeping.
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