Reducing Accumulated Fuels on Federal Forestland

On This Green Earth, James Johnston comes on the show to speak about prescribed forest burns. Johnston is a research associate at Oregon State University and the co-author of a paper about the benefits to forest health when mechanical thinning is combined with prescribed burns. Findings of this study are important becuase reducing accumulated fuels on federal forestland has been a congressional priority for nearly two decades; research such as this helps determine which techniques work.