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After decades of fire suppression, experts eye prescribed burns

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3zeF6Ch AJ Alvarado marched through the knee-high grass wearing eight-inch leather boots and fire-resistant pants. She sloshed fuel from a drip torch shaped like a tea kettle filled with diesel and gasoline. Tufts of grass crackled as they burned. A team of firefighters followed Alvarado, igniting additional rows of flames twenty feet apart at the Poudre Learning Center. “It's really difficult to do prescribed burns in Colorado, so to be able to pull off this training is no small feat,” said Alvarado, a second year firefighter who has worked on prescribed burns in Colorado, New Mexico and Idaho. Alvarado joined nearly 40 other participants from 14 agencies April 7 for the first prescribed fire training exchange in Northern Colorado, called a TREX event. Firefighters burned 18 acres of grasslands managed by the City of Greeley. For more than a century, fire policy in the United States has focused almost exclusively on suppressing fire to protect natural resources and property. But “preventing ‘fuels’ — grass, shrubs, and trees — from burning today only preserves them to burn tomorrow. As the stockpile of fuel grows, fires burn longer and with greater intensity,” M.R. O’Connor wrote in her book, “Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World.” As climate change threatens to increase the frequency and severity of wildfires, some experts want to reintroduce fire as a management tool to reduce fuel buildup and prevent megafires. Read more at rmpbs.org #climate #fire #wildfire #science #colorado ------------------------------------------------------ Follow Rocky Mountain PBS on our other platforms, too. • Newsletter: https://www.rmpbs.org/newsletter/ • Facebook:   / rmpbs   • Instagram:   / rmpbs   • LinkedIn:   / rocky-mountain-pbs