Fire Ecologists Say More Fires Should Be Left To Burn. So Why Aren’t They?

September 27, 2018btollesonRSS Sample

Fire ecologist Malcolm North looks down at the still-burning Lions Fire from a ridge in the Sierra Nevadas.

Fire ecologists are urging forest managers to allow more wildfires to burn on the landscape to help thin overgrown forests. Many challenges stand in the way.

(Image credit: Nathan Rott/NPR)