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Wildfire Benefits Wilderness

This is a great article about the benefits of wildland fires on the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.

Now that roughly 22 percent of the land base in "the Bob" has burned over the last two decades, Wirt says fire is finally resuming its natural role in the wilderness.

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The change has introduced diversity, regenerating fire-dependent vegetation. It has led to browse growth, providing benefits for wildlife. And perhaps most significantly, the burns of the last 20 years have actually improved the Forest Service's ability to manage future fires in the Bob.

I've posted on these types of articles before, but I'm going to keep posting them until the public finally understands the problem we have created by suppressing all fires in the forests.

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