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Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns protect forests in northern Arizona
Kate Duffy Cronkite News//November 8, 2023//[read_meter]
Ashton Johnson uses his drip torch during a prescribed burn operation in Kaibab National Forest on Oct. 5, 2023. Fire crews planned to burn around 2,300 acres of land that day. The prescribed burns in Kaibab National Forest are part of the U.S. Forest Service’s 10-year wildfire crisis strategy, which aims to combat wildfires in high-risk forest landscapes. (Photo by Kevinjonah Paguio/Cronkite News)
Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns protect forests in northern Arizona
Kate Duffy Cronkite News//November 8, 2023//[read_meter]
By Kate Duffy Cronkite News It was just before 8 a.m. on a clear fall day, when trucks carrying fire crews barreled down dirt roads into Kaibab National Forest. Shortly...
