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>It's been a well known risk for at least a century. Aldo Leopold began popularizing the idea of using prescribed burns to manage forests in the 1920s and by mi
by fakedang 3y ago
>It's been a well known risk for at least a century. Aldo Leopold began popularizing the idea of using prescribed burns to manage forests in the 1920s and by mid-20th century it was officially part of US Forest Service management practices.
Actually, the Native Americans historically started the practice.
- throwup238 3y agoThat's why I said "at least." Those practices inspired Aldo Leopold (among others) but he was the one to do most of the work to convince US government agencies of their merit.