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Western wildfires have become more volatile as climate change dries forests already thick with vegetation from years of intensive fire suppression. And the window for controlled burns is shrinking.
Thinning the dense stands of trees across forestlands is a central piece of the plan to protect against West Coast deadly firestorms
Thinning the dense stands of trees across forestlands is a central piece of the plan to protect against West Coast deadly firestorms
Snow may not be on the ground in Colorado when needed to allow for the safe burning of debris and vegetation piles ahead of fire season.
DECKERS, Colo. (AP) — Dripping flaming fuel as they go, a line of workers slowly descends a steep, snow-covered hillside above central Colorado’s South Platte River, torching piles of woody