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Study: Prescribed burning substantially reduces wildfire severity, smoke emissions
Prescribed burns are widely recognized as an effective wildfire mitigation tool. Now, using satellite imagery, land ...
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With reforms in place, California’s Karuk Tribe works to reestablish cultural burning as 'common practice'
For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely ...
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Researchers make key breakthrough in fight against overlooked threat from wildfires: 'You can consider hypothetical scenarios'
A research team from Harvard has built a new tool called SMRT-Flames to help communities figure out where wildfire smoke ...
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Prescribed burning, a return to traditional Indigenous practices
Before European settlers arrived in Western Montana, the Salish people traditionally managed the forest through prescribed burns, helping promote a healthy ecosystem.
Boyd Hill near downtown St. Pete was just set on fire. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
It’s hard enough to plan for a prescribed fire in a nature preserve: The wind needs to be just right. Detailed maps are drawn. Plants should be dry. But planning to burn at a preserve in the heart of ...