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Using Fire for Good on Tribal Land

By Henry McCann

Sep 1, 2020 ... Indigenous peoples have used fire to maintain the land for millennia. ... PPIC: What is the Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) program ...

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California’s Water: Protecting Headwaters

By Ellen Hanak, Jeffrey Mount, Van Butsic, Joshua Viers ...

Topics. Drought Forests and Fires Paying for Water Water Supply Water, Land & Air. Learn More. photo - prescribed forest fire. Report · September 2017 ...

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Managing Forests to Reduce Wildfire Risks

By Henry McCann, Van Butsic, Claudia Herbert

Aug 20, 2018 ... Fuel reduction tools like prescribed burning and mechanical thinning may reduce wildfire threats in some ecosystems but not others, ...

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How Wildfires Affect California’s Water Supply

By Henry McCann, Jeffrey Mount, Claudia Herbert

Jul 23, 2018 ... Summer marks the traditional beginning of California's fire season, ... Managing forests with mechanical thinning and prescribed burning ...

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Improving the Health of California’s Headwater Forests

By Van Butsic, Henry McCann, Jodi Axelson, Brian Gray ...

Management options exist—prescribed fire, managed wildfire, mechanical thinning, and forest pest treatments—that can help rebuild resilience in these ...

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How Unhealthy Forests Affect Water Supply

By Lori Pottinger

May 30, 2017 ... A second option is to do more prescribed burns. These will be smaller in scale than lightning fires. Lastly, we can use ecologically based ...