NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAMS
"HEALTHY FORESTS & FIRE"


Fire Charred Ponderosa Pine

Smoke Jumper Practice

 

 

Summer's wildfires always trigger calls for massive forest thinning. A bill that would allow just that is now before Congress. But in speaking with fire ecologists, producer Guy Hand found few who believe large-scale thinning is either useful, or possible

Aired June 6, 2003

 

 


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