There have been news stories all summer about wildfires destroying thousands of acres of forest in the West and elsewhere. Most of the time we hear about the devastation, but our guests says that fires actually help forests stay healthy and can even bring them back to their natural states by removing non-native plants.
Guest Information:
- Dr. Nancy French, is a senior scientist at the Michigan Tech Research Institute in Ann Arbor, part of Michigan Technological University
- Dominick DellaSala is chief scientist at the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon, and author of the book, The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature’s phoenix
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