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

HOW SCIENTISTS ARE WORKING ON FIRE RESISTANCE FOREST TO PRESERVE WILDLIFE
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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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