#ClimateCrisis #ForestFires

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It is high time to think out of the box and to adopt new practices to prevent forest fires.

Apart from exchanging existing #tree species with more heat and #drought resistent types, as some countries like #Germany are doing, active forest management with preventive #fires to destroy the accumulated undergrowth that tends to become a tinder box is of the essence. Many countries could learn a lot from indigenous...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/21/wildfire-prescribed-burns-california-native-americans

'Fire is medicine': the tribes burning California forests to save them

For millennia, native people have used small burns to protect the land. The US government outlawed the process for a century before recognizing its value

^{Susie Cagle (The Guardian)}