Thinning, Prescribed Fire, and Managing Wildfire Handout

Thinning, Prescribed Fire, and Managing Wildfire Handout
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Thinning, Prescribed Fire, and Managing Wildfire for Resource Benefit Reduces Severity of the Midnight Fire CART Case Study Handout

The Carson National Forest has implemented various management strategies, including thinning, prescribed fire, and managing wildfire for resource benefit, to improve forest health, resilience to fire and climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

Learn more about climate change , and protect communities. The 2022 Midnight Fire demonstrated the benefits of previous forest management to balance ecological benefits with community safety.

Read the full case study here: https://www.fws.gov/project/thinning-prescribed-fire-and-managing-wildfire-resource-benefit

 

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