Wildfires in Washington

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Nov. 14, 2024

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Human activity has altered not only wildfire intensity and fire-return interval, but baseline forest structure, causing habitat fragmentation, proliferation of exotic species, and a lack of landscape diversity. Wildfires, even large-scale conflagrations, present an opportunity to reclaim natural forest structure and diversity. However, current public perception of native forest structure is biased by over a century of management decisions and the persistent impression that wildfire is ecologically destructive, rather than a natural part of the ecosystem. Addressing both will be important in shaping ecologically-focused approaches to wildfire prevention and recovery in forestlands.

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