President Biden has called for protecting large, old trees from logging, but many of them could be cut while the regulatory process grinds forward.
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Forest thinning and controlled burns take away fuel for fires, but the US can only treat so many acres. Which ones to choose?
Protecting old and mature trees is the simplest and least expensive way to pull carbon out of the atmosphere – but proposed logging projects threaten mature stands across the US.
After another devastating wildfire year in the West, the Biden administration has a plan to ramp up forest thinning and prescribed burns. Two foresters explain why these projects are so important.
Two forest researchers whose own communities were threatened by fires in 2021 explain how historic policies left forests at high risk of megafires.
Forest thinning is a good way to lower the risk of fire, but there are potential downsides.
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Cooperative Extension Forester and Natural Resources Advisor, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Cooperative Extension Forester and Natural Resources Advisor, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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