Wildfire strategy doesn’t need a winner

By: Tony Cheng, Matt Thompson

Outlets: Colorado Newsline

Published: September 15, 2026

Words: 1,053

Last Updated: 2 days, 18 hours ago

This commentary was originally published by The Conversation.

One of the problems with how America deals with wildfires is thinking there is one primary strategy that can end the nation’s wildfire crisis. Whether that’s detecting and putting out every fire fast, increasing logging and forest thinning, or allowing fires to burn under safe conditions, the default choice today is to pour more money and effort into the star approach …

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