“Citing research from the U.S. Forest Service, the council backs such methods as thinning stressed trees and prescribed burns to reduce wildfires but said “only a small fraction of high-risk acres are being treated.””
Aptly-cited, no forest management is complete without fire in the equation (prescribed burns). Can’t do it. Fire is part of forest ecology. To ignore that would spell disaster for the health of forests in the long-term; we’re seeing some of that now after a century of putting out fires which should otherwise have burned.