HOW SCIENTISTS ARE WORKING ON FIRE RESISTANCE FOREST TO PRESERVE WILDLIFE
New science has re-sparked the long-lasting debate on how to best manage forests
It's evident the world needs the forests and wildlife for the climate and its preservations. This is why scientists are working on cluster planting trees make a forest in California more wildfire-resilient
New science has re-sparked the long-lasting debate on how to best manage forests. In 2014, the massive King Fire tore through California's Eldorado National Forest, ravaging a 30,000-acre swath of land.
Today, 8,000 acres of this scar is being targeted in a replanting effort led by Dana Walsh, a USDA Forest Service forester. Walsh's effort is based on a new approach, cluster planting, which mimics the gaps of cleared-out vegetation that decades of frequent, low-severity fire would create in a more mature forest.
This subtle pattern could make forests more wildfire-resilient.
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