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Learning to live with wildfires: how communities can become 'fire-adapted'

  • Written by Susan J. Prichard, Research Scientist of Forest Ecology, University of Washington
imageAn airtanker in the Chelan Butte wildfire in August 2015.benagain_photo/flickr, CC BY-SA

In recent years wildfire seasons in the western United States have become so intense that many of us who make our home in dry, fire-prone areas are grappling with how to live with fire.

When I moved to a small town in eastern Washington in 2004, I thought I was...

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