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Friday, August 14, 2015

Sierra Nevada parcel will test ways to reduce mega fires and increase snowpack

Forest ecologists finally got their wish: an entire private landscape on which to test methods of tree thinning and controlled burns to reduce risk of mega fires and minimize the effects of drought on California's frozen reservoirs -- mountain snowpacks.

from L.A. Times - Science http://ift.tt/1J5mYIY
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