New Hampshire has long seen prescribed burning around Concord Municipal Airport, in order to maintain the ecosystem that supports the Karner blue and frosted elfin butterflies. (Story here)
But now, as NHPR reports (here), we’re going to start seeing some deliberate burning to reduce the change of wildfires taking out homes near Conway. Climate change is a contributing factor, of course, but so is everybody’s desire to build houses in the woods.
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