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Tue 22 Jul, 2003 04:55 am
How a Forest Stopped a Fire in Its Tracks
July 22, 2003
By JAMES GORMAN
When a fire swept through the Blacks Mountain Experimental
Forest last September, it was stopped dead by a patch of
forest that was different from the rest.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/science/earth/22FIRE.html?ex=1059867930&ei=1&en=749e7a26bb3ea93f
Couldn't ask for a better experimental paradigm. So now we know: thinning is good, thinning plus controlled burning is better.