Byline: MATTHEW CARR The Dallas Morning News
When the smoke finally clears from this fevered season of forest fires, the science will still be far from clear-cut.
But research is now under way to study how prescribed burns -- intentional fires that simulate the natural ecological effects of wildfires -- might be used to avoid future fire outbreaks.
This summer's most notorious prescribed fire started a blaze that burned 50,000 acres of New Mexico forest in May. The fire destroyed more than 200 homes and threatened the nuclear-weapons research facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. But a major point of prescribed burns is to reduce the …
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