Why homes are lost to wildfire

I don’t think people understand that fire is absolutely an ecological factor that needs to be accepted. So let’s celebrate the natural occurrence and be compatible with that. Because control isn’t working for us in so many ways, it’s just screwing things up, giving us the false impression that somehow or other we don’t need to be inconvenienced by this factor of the planet that we live on.

Read more from the High Country News’ conversation with Jack Cohen, a research physical fire scientist with the U.S. Forest Service.