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Be stamped out. then in 1910, wildfires destroyed three million acres across the u.s. west. so the u.s. forest service made it their policy to put out any fire as soon as it started. as a result, forests became dense and overgrown. there were too many small young trees and dead trees and dry brush accumulated on the floor. add drought and climate change to the mix and you have the perfect kindling for a wildfire. isn't there a part that the wildfires started to do things people hadn't seen them do before? >> yeah. one thing i noticed is how fast the wildfires move. you can look at it one hour....

Law is the number one ruler. for example, our ancestors knew that fire is the only thing that at a landscape scale can fight fire. >> since time immemorial, indigenous folks maintained forests known today as cultural burning by setting low intensity, controlled burns at different times, they cleared away dead brush and fuels from the forest floor, protecting the forest from larger fires. but cultural burning was about more than just preventing catastrophic wildfire. the practice also helped promote growth of different traditional food sources and fire resistant species. indigenous folks knew w...

Conduct prescribed burns, aka good fire. but you got to know what you're doing to get the permit. >> so we're going to take out this top little corner. we're going take our time. >> today i'm going the hang out with some people who definitely know what they're doing at a prescribed burn on private property. >> always try to be downhill of the fire. >> leading the way are wildfire analyst zeke lunder and don hankins, a member of the plains miwok tribe. and a professor of pyrogeography at chico state university. >> a couple of miles ago the camp fire burned a quarter mile from here. they've been...

Wildfire mitigation plans, but it's anticipated that these upgrades will take many years and billions of dollars to complete. and guess who pays for all that? the pg&e consumer. they charge us not to burn us down. and until that's all in place, one of pg&e's primary wildfire mitigation strategies is just shut the power off. because it's hard for power lines to start a fire if there's no power. so pg&e does rolling blackouts regardless of the fact that some people need electricity in order to, you know, survive. >> you're experiencing these massive power shutoffs. they're supposed to be a last ...

Home to creatures both strange and wonderful. amazing things happen up in the trees. this blurry picture of my mom and dad from 2018 was taken in las vegas. i took it because i don't have that many pictures of my parents together, because they ain't together. it was an unusual event made more unusual because we'd all gone to vegas to escape this. >> devastating news out of california. >> the camp fire. >> the camp fire. >> the camp fire. >> houses and flames, forests being scorched. >> the most destructive fire in california history. >> agh. lucky for us the fires hadn't made it to where my ...