After the Bootleg Fire in Oregon, an initial assessment of land previously treated with controlled burns and tree thinning suggests that these efforts paid off and could hold valuable lessons for better forest management.
The devastation has raised doubts among state and federal leaders about the safety and efficacy of the U.S. Forest Service’s so-called “let it burn” strategy, referring to the practice of monitoring some small wildfires rather than immediately suppressing them. California Gov.
“We are in a ‘triage mode’ where our primary focus must be on fires that threaten communities and infrastructure,” Moore wrote in the memo. “When western fire activity abates, we will resume using all the tools in our toolbox, including wildfire and prescribed fire in the right places and at the right time.”
These early findings add to a growing body of research about how to make wildfires less explosive by thinning undergrowth and allowing forests to burn periodically instead of extinguishing every flame. In 2011, the Forest Service and the Klamath Tribes entered into a partnership to treat forested lands using modern science and Indigenous practices. The Sycan, which translates to “level grassy place” in the Klamath language, preserve is part of a larger historic site for the Klamath people and remains an important link between the new world and the one that existed before European settlers arrived.
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