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    Death in the Woods: the price of preempting a wildfire before it happened

    enSeptember 07, 2018

    About this Episode

    Our continued drive to suppress wildfire doesn’t just come at the cost of an unhealthy forest. It puts firefighters in harm’s way.
    And the Forest Service has begun to question whether that’s happening more than necessary.

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