Preparing for the “big one”: prescribed fire as a strategic fuel reduction tool

Wildfires are becoming bigger and more severe around the world, overwhelming firefighters’ capacity to control them. Prescribed fires can be used to safely introduce fire in the landscape and regulate fire regimes through fuel management and by building landscape resilience. Is this approach working?

This week, four fire experts will discuss how fire and resource managers are using prescribed fire to prevent wildfire spread. They will discuss strategic goals and tactics, tradeoffs between broad landscape resilience and local fuel management, and whether prescribed fire intensities are enough to affect outcomes. 

Artwork by Josep Serra

Here my target is to represent the controlled fire by FIREFIGHTERS ALONG THE PLAINS in a way IN WHICH IF YOU look upwards, the smoke coming from these Rx fires could be that coming FROM ACTIVE wildland fire. Thus IS A way to emphasize that we are using the same chemical reaction for prevention purposes. Digital tech artwork. JSerra