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The US Forest Service Planned to Increase Burning to Prevent Wildfires. Will a Pause on Prescribed Fire Instead Bring More Delays?

Experts say the nation is already dangerously behind setting “good fires,” but a prescribed burn that turned into an epic wildfire in New Mexico this year led the Forest Service to temporarily stop even more of them.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A firefighter works on putting out a hotspot from a wildfire on Friday May 13, 2022 in Mora, New Mexico as the Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires burn in the region. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images
The Windy Fire blazes through the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees near The Trail of 100 Giants overnight in Sequoia National Forest on Sept. 21, 2021 near California Hot Springs, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

In California, a Race to Save the World’s Largest Trees From Megafires

By Twilight Greenaway

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