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Fire Ecology (WILDFIRES & INDIGENOUS FIRE MANAGEMENT) Mega Encore with Gavin Jones & Amy Christianson

Ologies with Alie Ward

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How Much Worse Are Big Wildfires Going to Be?

The US Forest Service just announced that wildfires will be aggressively extinguished this summer and all the preventative controlled burns are suspended. Between 1985 and 2017, there was an eightfold increase in area that burned at high severity on an annual basis in the Western US. Lizzie Marr: Is there anything that is most difficult about being a fire ecologist? Adriana Alfaro: I call myself a reckless optimist but sometimes it's hard to feel like we can get out of it.

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