“In our region fire is to dry forests as rain is to rainforests; both are important in the life of a forest to provide clean water, climate stabilization, hunting and fishing, outdoor recreation and wildlife habitat. A fire does not destroy a forest; rather, it simply resets nature’s clock as it has been doing for millennia,” said Chad Hanson, Director and Ecologist with the John Muir Project, Earth Island Institute, and co-editor of “The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix”
Today on the program we speak with Chad Hanson about the fires that ravage Utah and much of the west, as well as Michael Jenkins, Associate Professor of Disturbance Ecology and Management, Insects, Fire, Snow Avalanches at Utah State University. Dr. Jefferey Bennion from the Cache Valley ENT Allergy Clinic also joins us to discuss how the wildfires affect our respiratory health.
