Researchers argue integration of all three approaches is necessary
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The team contends the critical question for fire management is not which single strategy is correct, but where the three approaches reinforce each other. They note fuel treatments can make suppression more effective by lowering fire intensity, and strategic prescribed burns can make managed fire safer by altering landscape conditions.
“The question for fire management shouldn't be "which of the three is right?" It should be "where do they reinforce each other?"”
Research team including Jim MenakisJim Menakis Fire ecologist, retired U.S. Forest ServiceResearch team (Conversation US article) Social, ecological, and risk-science researchers
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America's wildfire crisis won't be solved by picking a single strategy. The answer is weaving together fire suppression, fuel reduction and managed burning into one coordinated system that actually works.
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