Fighting Fire with Fire

Guest: Tony Cheng, PhD, Professor of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Director, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Colorado State University Large fires – mostly in the Western States – have already burned more than 1 million acres of land this fire season. One of the reasons wildfires are burning bigger and hotter than ever is that we’ve been so intent on putting them out–changing the landscape and making it more susceptible to fires.