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Oregon wildfire turns preserve into living lab, testing years of forest management
August 9, 2021/
“The use of fire never should have been discontinued,” said Craig Bienz, program director for the Sycan Marsh Preserve.
By combining modern wildfire science with traditional tribal knowledge of the Klamath people, the researchers seek to understand whether returning forests to their original condition, including allowing them to burn at low intensity every few years, can ultimately help make wildfires less devastating to the ecology and neighboring communities.
