- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: July 29, 2019
![The Camp Fire in Butte County on Nov. 8, 2018. (Photo: NASA)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/Green/blogfiles/56484small.jpg)
The Camp Fire in Butte County on Nov. 8, 2018. (Photo: NASA)
For millennia, fires periodically burned through California forests, thinning trees, reducing shrubbery and clearing out downed branches and debris. Without periodic fire, the forests became more dense, with spaces between large trees filling in with a thick carpet of duff, seedlings and shrubs.
As a result, today's forests are prone to more intense and damaging fires, like the Rim Fire, King Fire, and — most recently — the Camp Fire in Butte County. These fires are burning with unprecedented severity and speed, threatening large swaths of forest, towns, and even urban areas.
Using fire as part of forest management is not a new concept. Native Americans...
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