Why California is fighting fire with fire

Grist
By Nathanael JohnsonSep 19, 2019, 7:59 am432 pts
Slim pine trunks stacked in a mound loomed over my head, curving around me in a partial circle like a dam built by Brontosaurus-sized beavers. I’d followed a long unmarked dirt road earlier this year to see it: One of 48 wood piles in a 12 square-mile section of the Tahoe National Forest outside the town of…

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