It seems everyone is grasping for some “solution” to big fires. And one of the common assertions is that more prescribed burning would reduce fire spread and allow firefighters to knock down a blaze. Increasingly we also hear that tribal people kept fires from becoming large by the frequent burning of the landscape–as if this More

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