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Prescribed Burns and Forest Thinning Averted Millions of Tons of Emissions and Billions in Damages

Work to reduce excess flammable vegetation in forests warded off the release of 2.7 million tons of carbon dioxide, averted nearly 60 premature deaths and avoided $2.8 billion in damages in the Western U.S., according to a new study from the University of California, Davis. The…