Is it time to stop fighting wildfires?

Experts say it’s time to change the way we think about natural fires if we want to avoid catastrophic losses in the future.

"We don’t try to ‘fight’ earthquakes: we anticipate them in the way we plan communities, build buildings and prepare for emergencies," says Max Moritz, an associate at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and a cooperative extension specialist in fire at UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources.

"We don’t think that way about fire, but our review indicates that we should.

Posted by Julie Cohen-UC Santa Barbara

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