Video: This is What Happens When Wildfires Burn Again and Again
When wildfires strike our national forests, what happens next determines their future. In Oregon’s Willamette National Forest, the 1996 Charlton Fire burned inside a designated Wilderness area where no trees could be salvaged or replanted. Decades later, it continues to reburn, destroying soil, releasing carbon, and turning forestland into wasteland. Just miles away, the Shady…