A firefighter monitors a backfire in California, set to clear away dry vegetation that could fuel wildfires.

(FORT COLLINS, CO) One of the problems with how America deals with wildfires is thinking there is one primary strategy that can end the nation’s wildfire crisis. Whether that’s detecting and putting out every fire fast, increasing logging and forest thinning, or allowing fires to burn under safe conditions, the default choice today is to pour more money and effort into the star approach of the moment.

But effective wildfire strategy in the face of worsening fire seasons demands a system of actions – interconnected pieces that reinforce one another.

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