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How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone

  • Written by Clare E. Boerigter, Wilderness Fire Research Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Forest Service
How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it aloneA rare prescribed fire in a wilderness area burns in the Scapegoat Wilderness in Montana in 2011.Michael A. Munoz, CC BY-NC-ND

More than 110 million acres of land across the U.S. are protected in 806 federally designated wilderness areas – together an area slightly larger than the state of California. For the most part, these places have been...

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