The U.S. Forest Service's leader faces a growing challenge: ever more American homes built in areas that rely on fire as a natural part of their ecosystems
Only you can prevent forest fires, as the old television ad said, but the nation’s top forester wants to let a few burn.
A raging fire tends to be seen as a disaster, even a failure of forest management. But Vicki Christiansen—the chief of the U.S. Forest Service, who spent 26 years as a wildland firefighter—says that fire is an essential part of many landscapes’ natural ecosystems. Not only would it be impossible to suppress every blaze, she wouldn’t do it if she could. Forest fire, she says, is something the nation has to...
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