This chapter discusses the importance of prescribed fire in managing wildfires and highlights the example of the Kaldor fire. The speakers emphasize that the goal is not to stop or prevent fires, but rather to allow fire to have a role and determine what is left on the landscape after wildfires. They also discuss the limitations of prescribed fires and the challenges of reaccumulating flammable materials.
From the tragedy in Hawaii — which has left at least 115 dead, and over a thousand more missing, making it the deadliest blaze in the last century of US history — to recent fires in Canada, California, Indonesia and Brazil, the world seems to be engulfed in a megafire crisis fueled by climate change. We bring on a panel of practitioners to discuss what’s behind these megafires, and how we can work to mitigate the crisis. Matt Weiner is the CEO of the nonprofit Megafire Action, with a background in policymaking; Lenya Quinn-Davidson is Director of University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Fire Network; and Chad Hanson is the Director of the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute, a research and advocacy organization focused on federal public forestlands.
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