Wildfires are becoming more common and dangerous in the west, but prescribed burns, one of the best-known methods for preventing them, are rare.
Paul Stevko of the National Park Service tends to flames during a prescribed burn at Sequoia National Park. “gross mismanagement”
“This suggests that the best available science is not being adopted into management practices, thereby further compounding the fire deficit in the western U.S. and the potential for more wildfire disasters,” the report warns. , the use of prescribed burns decreased or plateaued. In the Great Basin, a region that includes most of Nevada, half of Utah, and part of several other states, it dropped significantly.
When Kolden examined work done by federal agencies, which control vast swaths of land in the West, she found that only one — the Bureau of Indian Affairs — had substantially increased its use of prescribed burns. Other than the Bureau of Indian Affairs, no other federal agency spends more than 25% of its fire suppression budget on prescribed burns, the report noted.
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