As another summer of large fires spread across the West including the Dixie Fire in northern California and the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon, advocates of “active forest management” have declared that we need more vegetation manipulation (i.e. prescribed burning, logging, and thinning–a slightly less severe form of logging) to control large blazes.  In light More

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