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Sierra Club: Bark Beetle, Dead Trees Don’t Fan Wildfires, Problem Is Too Much Fire Suppression

As the Creek Fire continues to ravage the Sierra, the debate about how to prevent this type of fire again leads down divergent paths. Cal Fire points to the 80%-90% tree mortality rate from bark beetle in the Creek Fire's territory as a major contributing factor. But Sierra Club California...

What Fresno County Is Doing to Prevent Deadly Wildfires

It has become an annual tradition of tragedy — wildfires ravaging large swaths of the California landscape, each year shattering records of destruction seemingly set only months prior. Once again wildfires rage in our own backyard, blazing through countless acres of dead and dying vegetation still struggling to recover following...

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