Setting Fires And Restoring An American Landscape

STEPH YIN and LYNDON FRENCH, NY Times: Science
Mon, 04/23/2018 - 11:17am

Where development and fragmentation have disrupted natural cycles, teams run controlled burns every spring to help sustain prairies and other ecosystems that have long been shaped by fire.

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