Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires, study finds

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Aug 20, 2025, 5:10 am261 ptsTop
The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love—dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous…

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