Chris Wright: “There's more than 30% more fuel per acre in Western fires…”

“It was very successful program. And then we stopped the ability to thin and control the forest otherwise. So There's more than 30% more fuel per acre in Western fires today than there was 40 years ago. which make wildfires burn so much hotter and so much bigger. We have to either let fires burn or manage the forests, and today we do neither.” (03:51–03:58)

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