Forest Degradation vs. Restoration
Fire-adapted forests are degraded, not restored, by reducing tree cover over entire landscapes already struggling with severe drought, insect outbreaks, polluted streams and loss of big trees and habitat linkages.
Fire-adapted forests are degraded, not restored, by reducing tree cover over entire landscapes already struggling with severe drought, insect outbreaks, polluted streams and loss of big trees and habitat linkages.
This is an urgent call to preserve more than 2.5 million acres of forests in western states to achieve the 30×30 goal of safeguarding 30 …
Today wildfire is largely approached as a problem that can be controlled through vegetation treatments and firefighting, but that strategy has not stopped the loss …