Prescribed Fire and Wilderness: Barriers and opportunities in a time of change

This audio is a reading of "Prescribed Fire and Wilderness: Barriers and Opportunities in a Time of Change."

The first fire on Earth ignited 420 million years ago. Today, our planet remains the only one that we know of where oxygen, fuels, and ignition sources - including humans - come together to spark flames. As fire historian Stephen Pyne writes, “We are uniquely fire creatures on a unique fire planet.”