Fire Ecology

Another paper was published recently (21 October 2024) in Nature Climate Change where Burton et al. state in their title that “Global burned area increasingly explained by climate change,” and conclude with how their study highlights “…the importance of immediate, drastic and sustained GHG emission reductions along with landscape and fire management strategies to stabilize fire impacts on lives, livelihoods and ecosystems.”

Still, the USFS, CalFire, and other land management agencies want to redouble their efforts to thin and burn in an effort to address the growing fire size problem. Calling all those who were once committed to ecosystem management…we need you back!