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
A rare prescribed fire in a wilderness area burns in the Scapegoat Wilderness in Montana in 2011.Michael A. Munoz, CC BY-NC-NDMore 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...
