Fighting Fire with Fire to Protect Old-Growth Forests

Researchers from the U.S. who recently published in the Open Access journal Fire investigated how to protect the Emerald Point forest at Lake Tahoe in California from wildfires using tree thinning and prescribed burns. Mature and old-growth forests are invaluable to the planet. Prescribed fires have been used for centuries as a land management tool, but they can also be used to protect forests against the threat of wildfires. Because of this, the researchers created a model of potential fire behaviour using samples from Emerald Point Forest to stimulate four fuel management scenarios to test the efficiency of each in reducing fire risk.

The researchers identified that fuel management scenarios with thinning and controlled burning are most effective for protecting mature and old-growth forests.

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