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Fighting every wildfire ensures the big fires are more extreme, and may harm forests’ ability to adapt to climate change

  • Written by Mark Kreider, Ph.D. Candidate in Forest and Conservation Science, University of Montana
imageExtreme fires leave forests struggling to recover in a warming world. Mark Kreider

In the U.S., wildland firefighters are able to stop about 98% of all wildfires before the fires have burned even 100 acres. That may seem comforting, but decades of quickly suppressing fires has had unintended consequences.

Fires are a natural part of many landscapes...

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