Indigenous Fire Management Buffered Climate Impacts for Centuries

University of Colorado Boulder

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Indigenous Fire Management Buffered Climate Impacts for Centuries

Devastating megafires are becoming more common, in part, because the planet is warming. But a new study led by Southern Methodist University and coauthored by CIRES suggests bringing “good fire” back to the United States and other wildfire-prone areas, as Native Americans once did, could potentially blunt the role of climate in triggering today’s wildfires.