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https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/science-research/2021-10-15/prescribed-burns-in-idaho-require-good-neighbors https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/science
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https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/science-research/2021-10-15/prescribed-burns-in-idaho-require-good-neighbors https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/science-research/2021-...
> Heather Heward is a senior instructor at the University of Idaho who teaches about forests and fires. She said it’s not just federal land we need to be thinning and burning, it’s private land, too.
> “We have a real lack of (prescribed burn) practitioners, specifically on the private land side, that are able to do this work because – we're scared, honestly. We are scared that something will go wrong and that someone will sue us. I'm scared of that,” she said.