UW News
Edward Kasner
May 7, 2022
Consensus approach proposed to protect human health from intentional and wild forest fires
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All forest fire smoke is bad for people, but not all fires in forests are bad. This is the conundrum faced by experts in forest management and public health: Climate change and decades of fire suppression that have increased fuels are contributing to larger and more intense wildfires and, in order to improve forest health…