For the first time in several years, the state Department of Natural Resources is carrying out a prescribed burn on state land.
The effort is jointly sponsored by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management .
“We’re starting with our prescribed fire program, dipping our toe more into broadcast burning, which historically the Tribes, the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, several other land management agencies have conducted,” Kate Williams, prescribed fire program manager for the Washington Department of Natural Resources, told KIRO Newsradio.
The benefit of these man-made fires is that they reduce the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires. The land-management strategy consumes the brush and needles on the forest floor, gets rid of dense and overgrown growth, and clears the way for more wildlife to expand.
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